FLDS Parents Could Face Charges for Abandoning their "Lost Boys"

KCPW News ^ | February 14, 2008

[Zakeet]

They're called the "Lost Boys," the teenagers kicked out of their homes and communities by leaders of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to ensure there's an ample supply of single, young women who will one day become plural wives. Representative Lorie Fowlke (R-Orem), is running a bill to make this abandonment a felony.

"Estimates are that we've had more than 1,000 children - primarily in southern Utah - thrown out of their homes," Fowlke says. "What we were trying to do with this bill is criminalize this behavior and send a message to this community that they can't just throw away their children."

H.B. 23 adds child abandonment to the definition of child abuse, and makes it a felony crime. It also adds an enhancement if a parent or organization benefits from the child's abandonment to further an illegal enterprise, such as polygamy. This is the case with the FLDS church, says Roger Hoole, a lawyer who represents some of the displaced young men and sits on the board for the Utah Association for Justice. He says the church benefits from kicking out young men who would compete for plural wives. This, he says, has devastating consequences.

"There's a huge impact that's coming, like a tsunami, that's going to hit the state of Utah, when these boys get a little older and realize what has happened to them and get angry," Hoole says. "There's a real problem here."

Fowlke's bill gained unanimous support in a Senate committee this morning, and now heads to the full Senate for consideration.

[Old Mountain man]

Last I heard they were losing members so fast, they can’t even keep leadership in their buildings. A couple of years ago, one of their bishops was taking the discussions from our missionaries in my ward.

[restornu]

One of the grand son’s of Joseph Smith converted in the last couple of years!

[Godzilla]

See, I knew you were interested in pulling some garbage scumbag type move like that no matter what I said.

Oh really??? The fact is that you could not/would not be honest with the simple facts surrounding your 'founder'.

And you are not in any position to condemn the Prophet Joseph Smith based on sleazy writings by anti-mormons like yourself.

Pssst OMM, I cited KJV, BOM and D&C - are you saying that those are now ANTI-MORMON writings???!!!!??? Those pesky facts, huh.

[Elsie]

You don’t seem to want to allow it.

Oh, we allow it.

What we DON'T allow is only ONE voice being heard about what your founders have done and said in the past.

[Elsie]

I certainly get tired of not reading the garbage posts you are famous for.

I certainly do NOT understand why the words of an LDS Apostle are considered to be GARBAGE by you?

[greyfoxx39]

Now all those, ahem, untidy bits of 'negativity' uttered and written by LDS leaders are being revealed.

Thank YOU; Al Gore; for INVENTING this wonderful tool for getting Truth to the masses.

AND thank YOU, Mitt Romney and LDS Inc. for the candidacy that brought all the fallacies of mormonism to the forefront.

LDS, Inc. is busily "editing" for publication the historical documents that have been hidden away in their vault, and setting up new websites to counter the truths being broadcast all over the net about mormon beliefs.

Unless LDS, Inc. can figure out a way to erase all the archived info stored away on millions of personal computers, closing this particular barn door is being done 'way too late after the horse is out and running.

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[Old Mountain man]

Drogheda. Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre. Karantina Massacre. Wounded Knee. Holocost.

Oops, no Mormons at any of these massacres, just mainstreamers, so I guess they don’t count?

None of you have ever proved that Brigham Young ordered a massacre. Why don’t you clean up your own house first. We are not going around massacring people these days but one of the above massacres was committed by “Christians” in the late 20th century.

[Elsie]

Comedy school again?

So you laugh at the Bible and the Words of your Prophet?

OMM; I do NOT think you are REALLY a Mormon, but some Evangelical Baptist Preacher who is merely posting AS a mormon; to make the Organization look bad.

[Elsie]

Get your facts straight wrong location!

Then post the FACTS and quit making ACCUSATIONS!

[Old Mountain man]

ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Elsie]

Is Hillary a MORMON??

 

 

...could be!

[Old Mountain man]

She acts like a baptist.

[Godzilla]

The fact is that you were trying to bait me into something that you could twist to your own twisted purposes.

Whats the matter, cannot defend your prophet against the FACTS of the KJV, BOM and D&C? Those are what condemn him. The fact that it seems you cannot elucidate what you believe about your prophet only confirms the witness of those documents.

If he cannot remain true to those documents, what makes you think he was an inspired prophet of god(s)?

[restornu]

Your the one that knows it all do your own homework!

[restornu]

Sorry I can’t help but laugh at all of the bloopers that are made, it show that none who post this stuff don’t understand it!

[Godzilla]

Sorry I can’t help but laugh at all of the bloopers that are made, it show that none who post this stuff don’t understand it!

Wow, what great intellectual pronouncement. You make that statement a lot, back it up - zippo, zero, zilch. Post #1656 is there, prove it wrong (crickets).

[Tennessee Nana]

For Eternity only how many times does one have to say this!
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For ‘eternity only” ????

That’s forever...

Now it seems to me if the marriaqes were for “etyernity only”. the Joseph Smith was in an awful hurry to consumate his “eternity only” marriages with “here and now” earthly wedded bliss

Why would “eternity only” marriages include sex at the time of the “ceremony”

Why not wait till “eternity” started ???

[Tennessee Nana]

For Eternity only how many times does one have to say this!
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What was that about “waiting on the Lord” ????????