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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.
Hie!
Whadda ya WANT!?
Another DECLARATION??
Another - To Whom it may Concern??
Furthermore, how can you even have a category of "ex-Scriptures?"
See above!!
--MormonDude(Sheesh!)
What are the changes?
Serious question: can someone list the ones they see to date?
Do those abandoned boys still have to wear the special underwear??
And the ones that DIDn't 'go forward' have been blessed by OUR Sacred Temple Rites® - baptism for the dead.
NOW they have a chance at heaven; through OUR efforts!
NOT by some lame 'preacher' that SCARES the pants off of them!!
--MormonDude(Well World: aren't YOU glad WE GIVE you a second chance??)
So many things to laugh at:
So little time left...
II seems to think that I am!
Looks like the hand-writing is on the wall, OMm.
They succeeded in killing Joseph, but he had finished his work.He was a servant of God, and gave us the Book of Mormon.He said the Bible was right in the main, but, through the translators and others, many precious portions were suppressed, and several other portions were wrongly translated; and now his testimony is in force, for he has sealed it with his blood.As I have frequently told them, no man in this dispensation will enter the courts of heaven, without the approbation of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jun.Who has made this so?Have I?Have this people?Have the world?No; but the Lord Jehovah has decreed it.If I ever pass into the heavenly courts, it will be by the consent of the Prophet Joseph.If you ever pass through the gates into the Holy City, you will do so upon his certificate that you are worthy to pass.Can you pass without his inspection?No; neither can any person in this dispensation, which is the dispensation of the fulness of times.In this generation, and in all the generations that are to come, everyone will have to undergo the scrutiny of this Prophet.They say that they killed Joseph, and they will yet come with their hats under their arms and bend to him; but what good will it do them, unless they repent?They can come in a certain way and find favor, but will they?
"If I ever pass into heavenly courts, it will be by the consent of Prophet Joseph"
--Brigham Young
--JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, vol. 8, p. 224
She?
SHE!!!
It is OBVIOUS to all lurking that your 'church' does NOT follow the Bible - at least what PAUL has written!!
--MormonDude(Gotcha!)
Things that only she can see...
C'mon...How unfair that you require his translation to be correct on THIS planet (you anti-mormon).
Prove that the translation isn't correct on Kolob!
Glad to know that you are God and making judgments!
Tell us all about your Temple Rites.
:)
bttt
Hie-de-hoe!
I'm channeling either Don Imus or Cab Calloway
Because they are BYU Scholars on a independent site.
Do we need yet anOTHER list??
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