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]

What kinda of a sound will upset a clam???

I don’t know.

Me, neither; but a noisy noise annoys an oyster.

[sevenbak]

Since you appear to have a “faith” exclusive of the Biblical Jesus...

please feel free to keep silent...

andysandmikesmom, I don’t concur with TN. You are not required to keep silent and no one can make you. Thanks for your faith in God, no matter how that is reflected, and thanks for not joining in the ‘mob’ mentality that FR so often becomes.

America, founded upon religious liberty, is one of the greatest blessing we have. May no one ever silence you or I, nor forbid any of us to practice our religion according to our faith in God.

God bless you, and thanks!

[Elsie]

GMTA

[restornu]

It is still the Jesus Christ doctrine pby.

[pby]

Are you a Mormon, fproy222?

Jesus took unto Himself all the sins of the world, and because of that, after we die, we will all be resurrected into Heaven.

So...this is what you say salvation is? Because of this, as a non-Mormon, I am also saved? There is nothing else that I need to do because Jesus took unto Himself all the sins of the world?

So I, and every other non-Mormon, have salvation...even if I/we don't get baptized in a Mormon Church and even though we do not follow all of the Mormon Commandments? What if I am not married?

And isn't this universal atonement, which restornu pinged the Religion Moderator for, earlier, as he/she complained that universal atonement was not consistent with Mormon doctrine as it relates to salvation?

[Tennessee Nana]

Thanks Elsie...

:)

[nicmarlo]

Ergo.....they are not Christian, by definition.

Just like the FLDS bunch:

Ergo.....they are not Mormon, by definition.

Exactly!

[nicmarlo]

a noisy noise annoys an oyster.

lolol!

[Elsie]

It can’t be, because the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( commonly known as “Mormons”) abandoned polygamy more than 100 years ago.

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    OFFICIAL DECLARATION—1

To Whom It May Concern:

Press dispatches having been sent for political purposes, from Salt Lake City, which have been widely published, to the effect that the Utah Commission, in their recent report to the Secretary of the Interior, allege that plural marriages are still being solemnized and that forty or more such marriages have been contracted in Utah since last June or during the past year, also that in public discourses the leaders of the Church have taught, encouraged and urged the continuance of the practice of polygamy—

I, therefore, as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn manner, declare that these charges are false. We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our Temples or in any other place in the Territory.

One case has been reported, in which the parties allege that the marriage was performed in the Endowment House, in Salt Lake City, in the Spring of 1889, but I have not been able to learn who performed the ceremony; whatever was done in this matter was without my knowledge. In consequence of this alleged occurrence the Endowment House was, by my instructions, taken down without delay.

Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort, I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws, and to use my influence with the members of the Church over which I preside to have them do likewise.

There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any Elder of the Church has used language which appeared to convey any such teaching, he has been promptly reproved. And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.

WILFORD WOODRUFF
President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

President Lorenzo Snow offered the following:

“I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been read in our hearing, and which is dated September 24th, 1890, and that as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding.”

The vote to sustain the foregoing motion was unanimous.

Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1890.

EXCERPTS FROM THREE ADDRESSES BY
PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF
REGARDING THE MANIFESTO

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as President of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the programme. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that, the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty. (Sixty-first Semiannual General Conference of the Church, Monday, October 6, 1890, Salt Lake City, Utah. Reported in Deseret Evening News, October 11, 1890, p. 2.)

It matters not who lives or who dies, or who is called to lead this Church, they have got to lead it by the inspiration of Almighty God. If they do not do it that way, they cannot do it at all. . . .

I have had some revelations of late, and very important ones to me, and I will tell you what the Lord has said to me. Let me bring your minds to what is termed the manifesto. . . .

The Lord has told me to ask the Latter-day Saints a question, and He also told me that if they would listen to what I said to them and answer the question put to them, by the Spirit and power of God, they would all answer alike, and they would all believe alike with regard to this matter.

The question is this: Which is the wisest course for the Latter-day Saints to pursue—to continue to attempt to practice plural marriage, with the laws of the nation against it and the opposition of sixty millions of people, and at the cost of the confiscation and loss of all the Temples, and the stopping of all the ordinances therein, both for the living and the dead, and the imprisonment of the First Presidency and Twelve and the heads of families in the Church, and the confiscation of personal property of the people (all of which of themselves would stop the practice); or, after doing and suffering what we have through our adherence to this principle to cease the practice and submit to the law, and through doing so leave the Prophets, Apostles and fathers at home, so that they can instruct the people and attend to the duties of the Church, and also leave the Temples in the hands of the Saints, so that they can attend to the ordinances of the Gospel, both for the living and the dead?

The Lord showed me by vision and revelation exactly what would take place if we did not stop this practice. If we had not stopped it, you would have had no use for . . . any of the men in this temple at Logan; for all ordinances would be stopped throughout the land of Zion. Confusion would reign throughout Israel, and many men would be made prisoners. This trouble would have come upon the whole Church, and we should have been compelled to stop the practice. Now, the question is, whether it should be stopped in this manner, or in the way the Lord has manifested to us, and leave our Prophets and Apostles and fathers free men, and the temples in the hands of the people, so that the dead may be redeemed. A large number has already been delivered from the prison house in the spirit world by this people, and shall the work go on or stop? This is the question I lay before the Latter-day Saints. You have to judge for yourselves. I want you to answer it for yourselves. I shall not answer it; but I say to you that that is exactly the condition we as a people would have been in had we not taken the course we have.

. . . I saw exactly what would come to pass if there was not something done. I have had this spirit upon me for a long time. But I want to say this: I should have let all the temples go out of our hands; I should have gone to prison myself, and let every other man go there, had not the God of heaven commanded me to do what I did do; and when the hour came that I was commanded to do that, it was all clear to me. I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write. . . .

I leave this with you, for you to contemplate and consider. The Lord is at work with us. (Cache Stake Conference, Logan, Utah, Sunday, November 1, 1891. Reported in Deseret Weekly, November 14, 1891.)

Now I will tell you what was manifested to me and what the Son of God performed in this thing. . . . All these things would have come to pass, as God Almighty lives, had not that Manifesto been given. Therefore, the Son of God felt disposed to have that thing presented to the Church and to the world for purposes in his own mind. The Lord had decreed the establishment of Zion. He had decreed the finishing of this temple. He had decreed that the salvation of the living and the dead should be given in these valleys of the mountains. And Almighty God decreed that the Devil should not thwart it. If you can understand that, that is a key to it. (From a discourse at the sixth session of the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple, April 1893. Typescript of Dedicatory Services, Archives, Church Historical Department, Salt Lake City, Utah.)

 

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So much for an 'Everlasting Covenant' that thundered out of Heaven!!!

 

Well; it DID last about 47 years!

[nicmarlo]

And He (Jesus ) said unto them (and us) “go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved and he that believeth not shall be damned Mark 16:15, 16

bttt!

[pby]

It is still the Jesus Christ doctrine pby.

Again, I know that is what Mormons believe...but that isn't/wasn't the issue at hand...

You, emphatically, stated that there was no such thing as Mormon doctrine (when there clearly is).

Smile...this was said with a kind tone and manner:)

[Elsie]

persistent to you and I have read your hostile opinions about the LDS.

It is so sad that people cannot tell opinions from historical fact.

[nicmarlo]

If, as you say that this Church is not guided by God through his Prophets, I need to find His true Prophets. Do you know of any?

This is your attempt to justify your belief in a false prophet. Whether or not I *personally* know of any true prophets does not take away from the fact that Joseph Smith WAS a false prophet. Do you understand that point?

[Elsie]

 

So what is the LDS view?

 

 

 

 

 

We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

 

 Joseph Smith

 

 

[Elsie]

This is all you personal opinion...

Bears repeating...

[Godzilla]

As I have stated the Bible also counsel that we do not have to answer every quetions to those who are hostile to my faith, and as I said there were time Jesus did not reply to questions put to him!

Aw, but resty - EVERY time Jesus was asked about what it took to be saved, He answered the question. Are you by your silence an effort to see anti's condemned? Is that what a mormon witness is?

[nicmarlo]

lolol!

[sevenbak]

Which Mormon church has it correct? Why should we accept that the one you claim is more right than the one which is topic of this thread?

You shouldn't accept anything without input from on high. God has promised to answer if we knock. Yes, there are way to tell, looking at the 'fruits' as promised by the Savior, but without diving guidance and personal revelation that he has promised, it's only an educated guess.

Let me share with you a reference that might help. This is the very same scripture that propelled a young Joseph Smith to ask God in a quiet grove of trees. He too saw to much confusion and strife/differences in the Churches. You have that same right, and frankly, that same responsibility if you truly seek answers and not just ammo for debate.

James 1:5-6

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

[Elsie]

Cognitive discontinuity anyone?

[nicmarlo]

EVERY time Jesus was asked about what it took to be saved, He answered the question.

That's a fact!