Comments about ‘FLDS raid in Texas: How did this happen?’

Why didn't it happen sooner? How come it can't happen in Utah?
Good questions all.

Is it true that the flds actually organized in the 1920s or 1930s?

Rozita Swinton, 33, was arrested in Colorado Springs, Colo., and charged with false reporting to authorities in connection with the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints case in Texas.

Ah, I don't believe it. It's just another false allegaiton of false allegations. Pass the corn dogs, would ya? Burp.

I urge everyone to contact the representatives of the involved states to intervene on behalf of these children. After hearing Carolyn Jessop, an escapee from Colorado City AZ and Warren Jessop, who waterboarded her infant son, I am appaled that any court would even consider letting any of these children return to that pedophile-slavery ring (which is exactly what it is), thinking that children under 5 may be safe. They are ALL at risk. The women may be objects of sympathy, but they have no voice of their own. Please, do not forget this story.

If Carolyn Jessop has written a book about the atrocities of life in FLDS, why hasn't something been done about this sooner? That should have been probable cause to enter the Colorado City compound, and all the others. Everyone should be aware of every aspect of this cult, including the Judge in Texas, and Ms. Jessop should be contacted to testify on behalf of these children. Hooray for Texas, especially on ordering the DNA tests. I think there is more of a shock in store when these results are revealed.

From Wikipedia re FLDS -
Blood atonement
Former FLDS Church member Robert Richter reported to the Phoenix New Times that Warren Jeffs has repeatedly alluded to the nineteenth century Mormon teaching of "blood atonement" in church sermons. Under the doctrine of blood atonement, certain serious sins can only be atoned for by the sinner's death. Richter also claims that he was asked to design a thermostat for a high-temperature furnace that would be capable of destroying DNA evidence if such "atonements" were to take place.[53]


Birth defects
The Colorado City/Hildale area has the world's highest incidence of fumarase deficiency,[54] an extremely rare genetic condition which causes severe mental retardation. Geneticists attribute this to the prevalence of cousin marriage between descendants of two of the town's founders, Joseph Smith Jessup and John Yeates Barlow; one local historian reports that 7580 percent of the double-communities' roughly 10,000 inhabitants are descended from one or both of these men

It puzzles me where the substantial FLDS money has come from. Having visited Hilldale and Colorado City I was struck with the appearance of poverty.

None of the news articles I have read has explored the church's financial affairs.

I have listened to the men and women of the FLDS and the above is nonsense.

As a latter-day saint and a resident of Texas, I am shocked at the way the media reports the raid on the FLDS compound in El Dorado. Some offer a brief - though confusing - comment separating the FLDS church from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with headquarters in Salt Lake City.

As I consider this event, I am intrigued with the timing of the raid. I believe the raid was planned so it was held close to our General Conference and the Solemn Assembly to sustain a new Prophet and President of the Church. In my mind, the well-publicized raid with its sensational headlines is an effort by those opposed to the LDS Church - perhaps with the encouragement of Lucifer - to discredit our new Prophet and the one true church. To my knowledge, the wonderful news of the Solemn Assembly did not make the national news. Sadly, the media is filled with reports on the raid in Texas.

These are the last days, indeed.

I have no respect for the women of this cult. The men are rotten, but the women are worse. They are the ones who allow their children to be abused, who teach them to lie, and who deprive them of the joy and freedom associated with a normal, happy childhood. They do not protect them from evil!

It makes me sick. I hope none of the children are ever returned to their mothers, unless they denounce their religion, move away, and vow to raise their children properly.

The men(if you can call them that) can all go jump off a cliff, for all I care.

Even with all its faults, the FLDS produce more righteous children than you would find outside their ranch. For example, the Texas CPS have two thirds of the children in their care on mind-altering drugs. The children in the ranch are not subject to all the perfidy of TV, Internet, etc.

If they would only consent to no sub-16 year old marriages, hopefully the State of Texas will leave them alone. If Texas does not, it is simple relgious bigotry.

I've been researching this for years! I couldn't believe what was going on right under our noses. Let's use this as a lesson people about extremeist teachings in our churches. Most of the churches contain some of these things. With trying to help people recover from sex abuse scandals from church leaderships and now this we need to learn.

This happened because authorities in Texas had the guts to enforce the law and PROTECT CHILDREN... something our own Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has ignored and failed to do.

Shurtleff seems to think that it's OK for 14-15 year old brainwashed girls to be raped by 50 year old men and for 12-14 year old boys to be abandoned on street corners.

Utah's lack of action is an embarrassment to the world!

How much longer do we have to hear about this? Enough is enough.

"...how someone assumes power over people's lives and how people allow that to happen and that they are both culpable. People who have broken away from it realize that."

kids who are raised in this are not "culpable." To make the statement that they share in their own victimization is sickening.

People who get raped aren't "culpable" either.

Remember Waco was to protect the Children and 85 of them died! Illegals have rights but white Christian Americans don't have any civil rights because some people don't like what they believe. and Government can raise our children better than parents can. Who is next on the hate list? YOU!

To Bill Johnson:

Colorado City has the appearance of poverty because Colorado City IS poor... as far as I can tell, their tithes aren't used to bless the community.

How on earth are the Texas authorities going to keep track of each individual from which DNA is taken, starting Monday? Tattoos, I guess; that is how they did it in Germany.

Thank you for this informative article. Is there a really a difference between the LDS and FLDS churches besides polygamy?

To LDS in Texas I find your conceit appalling. Do you really think the TX law enforcement officials conducted the Eldorado raid to upstage General Conference? Do you actually think they even know - - or care -- what GenConf is or who Thomas S. Monson is? Your letter seems to only care about appearances; about the publics inability to distinguish the LDS church from its kissin cousins, the FLDS, with nary a comment about the plight of women enslaved for breeding purposes.

As far as the media is concerned, there is plenty coverage in the U.S. about intriguing news, notably, the Popes visit and the events in Eldorado, TX. As I am sure you are aware, GenConf and the election of a new LDS president never make the national news like the naming of a new pope or Britney Spearss latest tantrums. But you can bet your last dollar that the American public nay, the world will not soon forget the name of the Prophet Warren Steed Jeffs.