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Posted on 02/22/2008 9:11:12 AM PST by 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.
Very funny!
I’m not his judge and YOU certainly are not qualified to be his judge.
You read too many anti mormon books.
You read too many anti mormon books.
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No, I only read the one and only Christian book...
The Bible...
ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That IS an anti-Mormon book!
roflol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, resty...c'mon.
EXPERTS in Egyptian language and culture provided the real translation...And it did not translate into the Book of Moses or any other part of the Pearl of Great Price.
IT IS A DOCUMENTED, AND PROVEN, FRAUD COMMITTED BY JOSEPH SMITH!
Why do you think that Hugh Nibley was freaking out when the originals were found?
Nibley knew, and stated, that these papyri were going to be trouble for the Mormon Church...and they were/are.
Read the New York Times Article...It is very, very compelling and, without question, documents Smith's translation fraud!
Oh, right...and somehow the claim that it was for eternity normalizes child abuse?
Why did Joseph Smith tell Helen that she had to marry him to save her entire family?
And...why didn't Joseph Smith wait until eternity to consumate the marriage to his 14 year old bride?
What do you think Helen Mar Kimball thought about her "ceremony"?
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Can you save the entire thread, Elsie?
Yeah...And, unfortunately for you, the author of those sleazy writings, that we so often post verbatim...is, none other than Joseph Smith, himself (or Brigham Young, or Joseph Fielding Smith, or _________Mormon prophet!
For a second...I thought that you had posted a picture of a lemming...which would have been appropriate!
Sorry, OMm...your words are posted for all to see. Unfortunatelly for you, this provides an inconvenient truth!
Go back and read posts 88, 89, 1033 and 1037...It is there.
Blah blah blah
ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Isn't a hoot...those Mormon prophets wrote some of the most anti-mormon stuff that I have EVER SEEN!
I just have to post some Mormon Prophet quotes...and you goes run and hide or go ballistic with name-calling.
Joseph Smith has already stood in judgement and has been proved to be a complete fraud!
By the way, the number one anti-mormon writing is THE BIBLE.
Let’s see, you post half truth, twist and then obfuscate, then ask the “When did you quit beating your wife?” question. Right, everybody sees what you have tried to pull. Now you are sounding like a little whiner.
What’s so funny is that you can’t seem to post anything original. Is that your problem? Your anti-mormon friends take the day off?
I do believe that someone is dreaming...but it ain't me!
Joseph Smith enters into plural marriage/child abuse with a 14 year old girl...and somehow that is an anti-mormon author's fault?
(please cue the music to California Dreaming)
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