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I just hope there is more evidence than is being revealed.
It should take a lot more than rumours and conjecture to take away 400 children from there parents.
To tell you the truth, I personally wouldn't mind seeing this perverse religion be completely disbanded but there are many who think the same way about my religion. Our personal beleifs should not be the law of the land. Abuses should be handled on a case by case basis using real eveidence and testimony. And I haven't seen any of that YET.
I just worry about the precedents being set that allow the government to raid homes and remove children without solid evidence.
They believe in protecting the children; children are important to their faith and to their closeness with God. There is no way any REAL LDS member would ever have condoned what these perverts were doing to those poor children.
All those "men" who had "relationships" and actually believed the lie they were told should be harshly dealt with, unless they were mentally ill. This crossed the line where any human being should have gone, "This is not right no matter what they've been telling me" and should have realized that their actions were not condoned by God.
No one is looking at the bigger picture - if this was a muslim mosque and they raided it like this, the muslim community would up in arms and screaming desicration. If you have ever been to a mosque there are beds in the back as well.
This was their house of whorship, I hope the State & Federal governements didnt take it lighty that they invaded it. Again I disagree with what they are doing but it seems to me religious freedom is no longer a freedom if you are FLDS, only muslim, catholic, baptist, mormon etc.
I dont recall them raiding any catholic cathedrals after several priest were accused of being pedofiles 3 years ago. It is now know that several priest raped and sexually assualted 100s of kids over the years. Were is the equality?
I dont condone this but it something is not quite right here.
With your training, do you believe that this fishing trip based on an open ended warrant is fully within "established laws"?
Can a warrant properly issue based solely on the telephoned words of an unidentifiable individual who claims to be a "witness or possible victim"?
Do you believe that a crime; "allegedly, in their Temple" is grounds for taking 400+ children and mothers who may or may not be somehow remotely connected to a possibly flimsily structured "alleged" "violation of state law"; can be established without accrual to the law which governs exactly how warrants must be issued?
Would you accept the opportunity to defend this raid against possibly innocent parties and premises?
I am a Doctor, and we have beds for employees who work late nights...lets not jump to conclusions here.
There are civil rights being violated on both sides at this point - Texas is in hot water for ceising an entire town's children. They could do it for a home, but not an entire town without cause.
Are there beds in the LDS Temples? I know of two......one in the Nurses lounge in the Oakland temple......for if someone gets ill. It's in plan view of everyone.........and in the nursery there are a few cribs and like a day bed.
I doubt they can get this under control......to many people practice it.
I understand the mothers wanting to protect their kids.......but they should of thought about that before they sent their daughter's with dirty old men.........
I probably shouldn't even respond to you as you obviously don't know what you are talking about... Joseph Smith had one wife and that flaming sword is more likely from some fairy tale you heard when you were a kid. Do your homework before you make stupid comments!!
You have never been more wrong my friend!
There are plenty of practicing mormons in polygamist replationships. Visit Utah County sometime.)
Just where in UT Co. are all these 'practicing mormons in poly relationships'? How would I recognize them? I have lived in this county for over 20 years in different areas and have never heard of or seen anything like this. What is ridiculous is that you could make statements like that on here and somebody will believe it. a bunch of hogwash. There were some known polygs out in Cedar Valley but they sure wouldn't have wanted to be called mormons.
Joseph Smith had 33 wives and he coerced Emma into accepting the situation by telling her that it was ordered by an angel with a flaming sword.
You don't need to believe me. You can read D&C section 132 and then do a genealogical search on Joseph Smith and his wives in the church's records.
Also, it's fine however wives a man has if he can support them but how can one support x number of wives and xx children? Oh, I know how! The very government that they rail against is the one who is providing welfare for the wives and children.
The men who engage in this twist scripture to their advantage to live this lifestyle.
Maybe the beds were used for sleeping? Even if they were used for sex, is that worth reporting?
swingers??? | 1:25 p.m. Apr. 11, 2008
I don't see big busts on swinger communities or nudist colonies....Oh that is right, those aren't sacred so therefore they are legal."
You would see 'big busts' on these communities if pubescent girls were involved. What part of this are you people not understanding?
re: Carly | 1:03 p.m. Apr. 11, 2008
Go to lds.org and request a couple of missionaries to come and explain."
Good luck with that...every time I try to have a discussion with them, they get a feeling of contention and bug out.
Heck yes it's worth reporting...just look at these headlines the past week! All designed to throw y'all into a feeding frenzy of righteous anger; whichever side you choose to be angry about, the paper still wins.
Were beds in temple used for teen sex? the headline asks us, as if we might know and are sharing in the moral outrage with the author, who also has no idea at this point. He doesn't need to know either, and he knows it. He's dangles a hook and watches the response. They play passive-aggressive with the subject, alternately incensed, then sad for the pleading mothers, then dangling something like 'temple sex beds'. As you can see, they really don't care one way or the other, so long as the herd is raising dust and the hits are way up and selling ads. Ka-ching! That's what it's all about folks. Thanks for playing!
2. 12th article of faith
3. "Kill'em all"
Multiple lawsiuts against Joseph Smith...all resulting in acquittal as far as I'm aware of. FLDS, at least two convictions. See #2 for the difference between the LDS and FLDS.
Governor Boggs (see #3). Easy to see how media can serve as a catalyst to drive hate. Just wait for the evidence to be presented. I am LDS, but I voice concern for all the members of this community.
Joseph Smith did restore plural marriage (D&C 132-read the whole section to retain context. Also read Joseph Smith by John A. Widtsoe pp.234-242). To all the moral projectionists in this thread, see #1.
Maybe Texas shoujld start saving the chidren of those church's that handle rattle snakes too.....
have a few beds, which are used by those that work
there for rest, nothing more. Please, don't fall
for the salacious reporting that passes for facts.
It is called statuatory rape if one of those
sex partners is an ADULT and one is underage...
It is a crime as opposed to just being 'morally corrupt'.
The FLDS temple building was declared a crime scene because of the nature of the complaint...as would be
a Mosque, a Jewish Temple, oe a Baptist Church.
There are no law enforcement impropriaties here
if one understands the whole picture.
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You see, the thing that people keep getting confused about and nobody is making clear is this:
FLDS is not the same as LDS. You probably haven't heard that, because nobody is drawing the distinction, but the truth is that FLDS is not LDS.
Just wanted to make sure everyone knew that.
Because it hasn't really been brought up until I just thought of bringing it up.