Comments about ‘Search of FLDS temple site complete’

Resume their normal lives? With all of their children snatched under slim pretext and placed in state custody? Give me a break. I'm no ACLU supporter, but this sounds a little too "Short Creek" even to me.

Like most people I think this group is "way out there". However, I find myself bothered by the fact that a single phone call prompted such a response. I hope they had other evidence (other than innuendo about a strange/perculiar religion) to break up families and invade their holy place. Why hasn't the ACLU spoken out for this group?

Everyone seems to be fixated on the sexual aspect of this story. Have the FLDS men been having sex and impregnating only underage girls all this time? Who built the compound...the "obviously older" women with their children? Child abuse should be dealt with, but not by condemning "EVERYONE". What we have heard for years and years against the FLDS has come from those who are embittered against them. It would be some interesting reading to have access to FLDS followers' stories.

I read in the hard copy of the Deseret News that Shurtleff claims to have "almost" conducted a raid of the Utah FLDS, saying he didn't do it, deciding instead to work with the group's attorneys, and then the suspects he sought vanished. My question: If polygamy is illegal, why not enforce laws against it? The mistake of the 1953 Short Creek raid wasn't the raid itself; it was backing off, allowing citizens to publicy flout the law and continue the practice of polygamy. Now I hear that Shurtleff is telling FLDS in Utah that they don't have to worry about his conducting a raid here. Another huge mistake IMHO. Let's either change the law so that polygamists can conduct their lives in the open, or let's enforce the law. Why have laws that we don't enforce?

That was mighty big of "them" to opt to search the temple last. When, in all the years of hearing about the FLDS, have they actually hidden abuse?What we "know" has come from embittered ex-members. I hope these children will be treated with respect to their wishes. If 9 to 17 year old girls (and boys) out in the "normal?" world are being allowed to buy contraceptives, have sex and generally do as they please...I surely hope these children will be allowed to stay with their parents if they so choose.

I've had the same thoughts. Although this is one odd religious group. But I feel something fishy is going on regarding that phone call. This seems as though they've got "Gestappo" police taking these people to another compound under the direction of the "The First Baptist" church written on these 2 white buses according to a photo shown on this website a week earlier.

I don't agree with the practice of polygamy and find the FLDS to be a strange people. However, it broke my heart to read how the FLDS people knelt and prayed and sobbed around the outside of the temple. I can only imagine any Latter Day Saint would respond the same way if their temple were being broken into by authorities. It is a sacred edifice to them, and only certain people are allowed inside. It would be desecration to them of their holy place.

I don't agree with their beliefs, but this is scary. What would we do if they showed up at the Salt Lake Temple with the jaws of life to get inside?

I think the issue isn't just about polygamy, it's about child abuse. If they had reports of sex with underage girls going on inside their Temple, then Texas authorities had an obligation to check this out. How sacred can this edifice be if child-rape is going on inside its walls?

It's about time the authorities searched out these child abusers! What ashame for our world to have such people living it who do this to children. Would any of you want to be a breeding machine?

Anyone who condones this sort of piggery needs to get some serious help! And FAST!

To some of you morons on this site, the authorities did the right thing.

Take note the fear of the mormons is raising it ugly head again. Egnoring the constitution and proceeding without facts and real evidence is what happened to the early church. Desecration of sacred buildings, tearing families apart in 2008 should be familiar to Latter-day Saints. We claim the priviage of worshiping Almight God according to our own revelations can be swept away in a heart beat.
Members of the church need to be concerned about what is happening in Texas.

Yet more sick stories from a very sick patriarchal culture.

Amazed1---your comment lacks one main point. Those kids in our "normal" world who are buying contraceptives are doing so on free-will. Their parents are not forcing them. Religous freedoms have gone too far--all these men need to be convicted sex offenders and all these girls/women need to be put through counseling to undo the deep brainwashing and abuse that they have been put through.

" However, it broke my heart to read how the FLDS people knelt and prayed and sobbed around the outside of the temple. I can only imagine any Latter Day Saint would respond the same way if their temple were being broken into by authorities. It is a sacred edifice to them, and only certain people are allowed inside. It would be desecration to them of their holy place. "

Sound more than a little like idolatry to me. Treating a building as more than a building is no different than a golden calf in my book.

Why are people comparing Latter Day Saints to them. I don't want to be compared to them. Noone is going to show up at the Salt Lake Temple. They do not follow the laws of the land. They are wrong. If they thought there was evidence in their temple then they had to go in. If you want to "Pretend" or let your mind run wild that they would ever show up at the SLC temple than imagine that they could find an official that is a member to go in. This si so sick they need to follow the rules.

Resume their normal lives, lol. All their stuff was rifled through or stolen, and their holiest place defiled, with doors and walls smashed and broken down with jaws of life machines. Their wives and children were stolen away.

And the suspect they supposedly were after hasn't even set foot in that state for 30 years. Not to mention they can't produce this supposed abused girl.

WHo cares if she is real. They are still sick and wrong and anyone defending them please do not say your are LDS!

Amazed1.... Amen

If you want to know the inside story of the poltgamous cult lead by Warren Jeffs (who live at the YFZ Ranch in TX and in Colorado City, AZ.), check out the recent documentary BANKING ON HEAVEN.

Patriarchy is patriarchy.

What would you expect?