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.

[Elsie]

Now really, you’re on a conservative site like the FR, & you take an article in the NYT as undisputed truth?

NOt now; but in 100 years, the article still has not been handwaved away by LDS, Inc.

[Elsie]

And this one is not considered ‘getting personal’? ... Now you see why I asked if you are perchance LDS.

Now, now....

Using the same thought process as "Presbyterianism is NOT true." can lead to statements about Elsie being slighty off as well.

[Elsie]

Amazing that so much effort is extended to whitewash such a black hearted man and the fables he produced.

Why is that??

WE got Temple building to continue!

--MormonDude(I hear a VOICE!)

[Elsie]

NOW you’re getting it; Grasshopper!

[Elsie]

...an edited version of Joe Smith's writings is going to be published there's a brand new web site "explaining" the mormon take on Jesus...

If you can't blind them with brilliance; then baffle them with...

[Elsie]

IMO Mitt and LDS, Inc., expected him just to waltz into the nomination.

And they 'expected' a bit more out of them darned Salamander Letters; too!

[Elsie]

HAHAHAHa

HEEEHEEHEEEEE!!!!

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

—MormonDude(Wait! I think I’m channeling someone!)

[Elsie]

If so, what’s your refutation, other than perhaps to say it’s spin. BTW, much of what was believed in 1912 about various things, including ancient writings, have been shown wrong.

Just nothing about the fabled BoA has been.

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If so, what’s your refutation, other than perhaps to say it’s spin. BTW, much of what was believed in 1912 about LDS things, including ancient writings, have been shown wrong.

Yup; we've shown that over and over; but the TBM's still cling to what those two demons foisted off onto Joseph Smith; ignorant 14 yo farm boy,who knew nothing of the Scriptural warnings.

[Elsie]

The question is, how would Joseph Smith have known these things that were not known at the time? Was he just lucky?

Hello!!

DEMONS know these things!

They fed that stuff to him; just like the first vision.

[Elsie]

What I always find so interesting is even when members KNOW that Smith was a fraud but stay because of the lifestyle.

Why does the world have METHADONE??

You can't break loose from the kick of the drug!

[Elsie]

What are we to conclude, if an alleged prophet is not right 100% of the time, as noted above?

When will you Gentiles EVER figger it out!

GOD has changed HIS mind once again!

We KNOW that some of JS's prophecies haven't (or CAN'T) come true, but look at our fruits!

We feed orphans and tsunami victims!

We have big Boy Scout groups!

We have fancy Temples!

We have a LIVING PROPHET!

We got the absolutist best CHOIR in the WORLD!!!!

--MormonDude(Must I name ALL of our Good Works®?)

[Reno232]

Thanks for the advertsiement Elsie. Great resource.

[Elsie]

 

So, don’t take offense to my lack of response to you.

 

 

Number 18...

 

How Mormon's deal with data presented to them by those they call ANTI's:

  1. How you interpret it is wrong...
  2. You are too ignorant to really understand it because you are not a member....
  3. You're not qualified to judge because you're no LONGER a member...
  4. You are just a bigot for bringing the whole ugly truth to light ...
  5. So’s yer Mama!
  6. Laugh it all off and post some silly image.  
  7. Jump down the rabbit hole; Alice!
  8. Bait & Switch
  9. The OTHER 'half' of the truth is what we are avoiding.
10. "I Know It When I See It"
11. Hand waving...
12. YOU play defense for a while.
13. HEE Hee hee... let's get the Calvinists and the Armenians fighting!
14. GREAT FUN! Let's get the Catholics and the Protestants fighting!
15. Huh? Did you say something?
16. If I repeat this enough times some folks will be fooled into thinking it's true.
17. Playing dumb.
18. Refusing to answer because your ATTITUDE offends them.
19. (Let's see if they'll fall for the 'Defend a freak' ploy.)

 

[Elsie]

The point was, the majority opinion doesn’t always constitute truth.

Neither does one man; with his face in a hat.

[Elsie]

Do you swear to use the List, the Whole LIST and nothing BUT the LIST???

[Elsie]

It’s one scholars opinion.

Now WAIT a minute!

You were just argueing AGINST having a LOT of people agreeing about something, and now you don't want ONE persons 'opinion'.

[Elsie]

" Muslims outnumber us Christians...."

You got to remember that "Us Christians" means members of the LDS Organization.

The REST of us are in the Devils church; therefore; by definition, not Christian.

Ergo...

Muslims DO outnumber "us".

[Elsie]

I thought you left 23 minutes ago?

[greyfoxx39]

Jest waitin’ fer yew.....

[Elsie]

Try reading the links I just gave to P-Marlowe as well.

Yeah!

THAT'll keep ya outta our hair for, oh, say a month or two!

--MormonDude(Skin that one: I'm runnin' out to get you another one!)