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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.
>>To be fair to sevenbak, at the time he and DU hadbeen touting<<
I’m not sure which Freeper that refers to but surely we can find a kinder nickname than DU...
pro-CHOICE comes to MY mind...
Well, then, could you again, send me those references in a PM...thanks...
Your Temple Rites® are not.
Matter of fact; they are not even found in any of your Scripture.
... Missionaries all to happy to talk to anyone who wants to know more.
Except they will NOT talk about your Temple Rites®.
Then you know why LDS Org., outta SLC, ain't Christian.
We've explained that over and over.
The admonition from Jesus was ‘to be Born Again’. What follows after that in the way of doctrinal methodology used to ‘walk the walk’ is where variation in Christian sects derives. With Mormonism, being born again is something that occurs ‘after all that you can do’ thus it contradicts the most fundamental tenent of Christianity. The other vagaries of Mormonism are the dross which cannot ‘unsave’ someone, but which will not save one either.
Oh oh!!
I see that SOMEONE got the NUMBER and it wasn’t ME this time...
I like your take on Elsie’s post..perhaps Elsie will respond...but I do like your take on it...thanks...
And I didn't even run with the scissors!
It is shorthand for Delphi User, another active Mormonism apologists at FR using reems of documents from FAIR.LDS.
Dang; GF; they've found us out!
And I thought that our intent of re-publishing the things that LDS, Inc. tends to hide was fairly obscure.
Oh well; who knew we wuz so transparent!
Well hecky dern!
I thought there wuz some kinda big deal about it!
It's not like he was calling prospective IU basketball players or nothin'.
Nope...
A frog in a blender.
Sometimes ya jes gotta let it out!
Something that Martin Luther didn't even do.
hehehe
Well, you are just confused.
We do NOT follow what our original founder and subsequent early leaders; but doctrines of men that have been introduced into our theology.
--MormonDude(I thought it was obvious?)
Strange that NOWHERE in Scripture is THAT sensation ever mentioned.
You are welcome.
Some folks just need to go over things a LOT before the Truth starts to sink in.
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