Posted on 04/13/2008 8:57:18 PM PDT by claudiustg
SAN ANGELO — A Texas judge on Sunday ordered law enforcement officials to immediately confiscate all cell phones in the possession of FLDS women and children now housed in temporary quarters here. "I just called to say, hi. They are about to collect the phones, I think," one soft-spoken FLDS woman said during a telephone call to another member of the Fundamentalist LDS Church who was outside of the shelter. "I don't like what they're doing."
Several of the women inside the shelters spoke by cell phone to the Deseret News on Saturday to describe the living conditions there. Children could be heard crying in the background of each conversation. The News published an article on Sunday, quoting the women who complained there was no privacy and that their children were getting sick.
FLDS faithful outside the shelter are convinced Sunday's court order is a direct result of the women speaking to the newspaper.
"This is nothing more than retaliation of Child Protective Services to punish those who were disclosing what is really happening behind the walls of this concentration camp," said Don, an FLDS member who asked that his last name not be used. "These are my family members."
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
Unfortunately, reading this sexist crap drew me back in! LOL
“I am a spic through marriage.”
I’ll tell you. I kinda like these new names.
Whitey, Blackie, and Spic are so much easier to spell than Caucasian,African-American, and Spanish-speaking/Latino Descent/Heritage.
I won’t be wearing out as many pencils, that’s for sure.
“I’m not a typical whitey. I am a spic through marriage.”
Next thing I know, you’ll be telling me TYPICAL-WHITEY is black.
March into the gas chamber. We are doing this for your own good.
“in which women are second-class (if that!) citizens.”
I thought we were all second-class citizens.
Our vote doesn’t count, and nobody wants to hear what we are saying.
March into the gas chamber. We are doing this for your own good.
...must BE heard?
No worry: I find you delightsome!
We'll have to ask Obama.
Sorry, the Nazi thing was already discussed and vetted two days ago.
Just wait till you get up to post 50 or so.
We are on 600 now, so you got a lot of catching up to do.
BEWARE: What you think you see right now (posts 1-50) may be slightly misleading.
How about an Innocent person whose house was ramsacked by the state.
“Unfortunately, reading this sexist crap drew me back in! LOL”
It’s a vicious circle, isn’t it?
“The ‘government’ that you’re holding in such contempt is doing the right thing by these women and children. Or do you too approve of child brides and organized slavery via brainwashing?”
I don’t approve of Concentration Camps or gas chambers.
In the interest of getting the thread back on subject, and helping BLUEMOOSE catch up, here are some interesting details.
In 1935, the LDS Church excommunicated the Mormon residents of Short Creek who refused to sign an oath renouncing polygamy.
Following this event, John Y. Barlow began to lead a group of Mormon fundamentalists who were dedicated to preserving the practice of plural marriage.[citation needed]
The location on the Utah–Arizona border was thought to be ideal for the group because it allowed them to avoid raids by one state by moving across the state line to the other.[
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_Day_Saints
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Zitting died in 1954 and Leroy S. Johnson was chosen to lead the church in Short Creek. Johnson led the FLDS Church until his death in 1986. He was succeeded by Rulon Jeffs, who assumed the position of prophet, a title his predecessor refused to use. In Jeffs’ later years, his poor health led to his son Warren serving as leader of the church in his stead, and upon Rulon’s death in September of 2002, Warren Jeffs essentially proclaimed himself prophet and leader of the FLDS Church. However, immediately after being convicted of being an accomplice to rape by the state of Utah, Warren Jeffs resigned his leadership of the FLDS Church.
Since no public statements have been made by officials of the church indicating a successor to Jeffs, it is not now known who may be leading the FLDS Church.
There are private statements that have been recorded by Jeffs that indicate that William E. Jessop was to be his successor, or possibly that Jeffs was never the prophet of the FLDS Church at all and Jessop had been rightful prophet since Rulon Jeffs’ passing, but these statements have not been accepted by the FLDS community and have been contested by Jeffs’ attorneys as misstatements.
JESSOP......where have I heard that name?
Oh, yeah, CAROLYN JESSOP. The one who has been speaking to the media as a rep. for all the ‘FLDS wives’.
NO. The government doesn’t present it's case until tomorrow.
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On January 10, 2004, the church suffered major upheaval when Dan Barlow, the mayor of Colorado City, and about 20 men were excommunicated from the church and stripped of their wives and children (who would be reassigned to other men), and the right to live in the town.
As a result, a few teenage women reportedly fled the towns with the aid of activists who advocate the escape of plural wives from polygamy.
Two of the young women, Fawn Broadbent and Fawn Holm, soon found themselves in a broadly publicized dispute over their freedom and custody. They fled state custody together on February 15, and have been on the run in multiple states since.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_Day_Saints
Uh......
In July 2005 eight men of the church were indicted for sexual contact with minors. At least some of them surrendered to police in Kingman, Arizona.
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