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Informant: Men had sex with underage girls in FLDS temple
This just gets worse and worse. I'm so glad they got the children out.
LDS or FLDS....YOU GUYS ARE ALL MESSED UP! YOUR TWO RELIGIONS ARE BOTH CULTS! Y'all are a bunch of messed up mental cases!
1890: Wilford Woodruff denounces polygamy
1904: LDS begins excommunicating polygamists
1928: LDS polygamists move to Short Creek and establish FLDS
FLDS is a product of the LDS church whether you like it our not.
We brand and castrate bulls down in Texas. Maybe we should consider doing this to a few old men with child brides!!
I also agree with Jamie.
I hope they put every polygamist sex offender in prison permanently! These guys are too evil!
Don't worry people, Texas WILL put an end to this.
It is just very sad and disappointing for those LDS who are not concerned about these abused individuals but more concerned about the image of yourself and your church.
FLDS merely refused to give up the principle that JS and BY preached and lived. ...down to the fact that they both had wives that were 1/3 their age. Meanwhile, LDS has among its elite ruling class descendants of polygamists like Orrin Hatch and Mitt Romney. Remember, after the Manifesto was issued, Romney's relatives evaded it by moving to Mexico and yet he is still treated like Mormon royalty and put forth as a candidate for President.
Thank god we dodged *that* particular bullet...
Stop lashing out at others and deal with what your own religion has for its history.
Documents: Sect Teens Made to Have Sex
By MICHELLE ROBERTS � 30 minutes ago
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) � Young teenage girls at a polygamist compound in West Texas were required to have sex in a soaring white temple after they were married in sect-recognized unions, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
The temple "contains an area where there is a bed where males over the age of 17 engage in sexual activity with female children under the age of 17," said an affidavit quoting a confidential informant who left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Agents found a bed in the temple with disturbed linens and what appeared to be a female hair, said the affidavit signed by Texas Ranger Leslie Brooks Long. The Rangers are the state's investigative law enforcement arm.
The temple also contained multiple locked safes, vaults and desk drawers that authorities sought access to as they searched for records showing alleged marriages of underage girls as young as 12 or 13 to older men and births among the teens. The affidavit unsealed Wednesday mentions a 16-year-old girl who has four children.
Your information really gripes me! Thanks for the disgusting information... Sex-Beds? that really cripples me emotionally and makes me want to puke!
However, I am just wondering how long it will take the authorities to clean up this mess. It gets worse by the minute. These polygamist men are sub-humans. They are horrible and completely perverted!
I guess it was "sacred" not "secret"...
A sex bed in their temple?!? I'm speechless! It's amazing how less than 100 years of misdirection and false leadership can totally drive people off the deep end. I mean as an LDS person I believe that the other Christian religions have lost their way but still have a lot of truth, they've also had a much more substantial amount of time to do so, but the FLDS in this short period of time go that far off base? Talk about the lord taking the truth completely from them.
I know there are a lot of ex-LDS out there that are extremely bitter and hateful towards the church, you can't help but know after reading these posts, but they have more in common with the FLDS church than the LDS church does. Even then, only common ground that they have is that they used to be part of the LDS church, and have distanced themselves as far away possible from it.
It has been practiced for thousands of years in many different lands and cultures, including by many of the prophets of the Old Testament -- Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -- to name three.
What makes the practice of polygamy wrong today is:
1. It's against God's laws.
2. It's against the law of the land.
But, God changes his laws from time to time to suit His purposes.
Man changes laws his from time to time to suit his purposes. Not always in harmony with God's laws, by the way.
I can forsee a time when polygamy is once again practiced in harmony with God's laws and the laws of the land.
Anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or is lying.
LDS people have nothing to hide or to be ashamed of regarding the church's past history of plural marriage. Just as Jews and Christians alike are not embarrassed or ashamed of Biblical prophets who practiced polygamy, the LDS people should not be ashamed of their ancestors and prophets who practiced polygamy.
It was all done in accordance with God's laws.
We've got to be aware that this is not a black and white situation. Just because the FLDS are abusing people and deserve to go to jail doesnt mean we can convict them for every rumor or conclusion we jump to on an uninformed internet forum. Here your guilty till proven guiltier, evidence not required. I think thats the problem a lot of us are having on here. Thats my problem at least. I think one of the posters clearly illustrated it by assuming that since I spoke out against promiscuity then it is a fact that I myself am promiscuous. We cant just make stuff up(or place evidence) to make ourselves feel 100% justified on the situation.
It�s a bad situation for everyone, we need to stop denying that, some of the kids are going to suffer, but the group on the whole is better off. Polygamy needs to be wiped off this continent.
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