Comments about ‘FLDS man sues Arizona over loss of police job’

for mormons, it's ok to have multiple wives but being gay means you're a bad person... well, it's nice to see that the real world works the other way. This cop could be gay and he wouldn't be fired, but he breaks the law and has multiple wives so he looses his job. As it should be.

For your information, Mormons don't have multiple wives. They dropped that practice long long ago. We are not a part of the FLDS. You probably don't even know what FLDS stands for. Next time you open your pie hole do your research and don't believe everything you read. That goes to show how arrogant people are, writing about something you don't understand. As for you gay/lesbians people you think your way should be shoved down peoples throats and if you don't get your way then its discrimination. It says in the consitution that marriage is between a man and a woman, Not a guy and a guy.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

FYI, the FLDS faction is NOT aligned with the mainstream Mormon church, and I agree that his inability to separate his faith from his job was a justification for losing his certification. Before you start slamming me, I'm not a Mormon, but I do have Law Enforcement officers in my family. When you swear an oath to uphold the law, nothing should interfere with that job requirement... not faith, and not family.

People know LDS don't have plural wives.
They just like to stir us up.
They like reminding us about a practice that was
discontinued over a century ago.
Not that we are saying it was wrong at the time.
But they don't like when we bring up old stories
of murder, rape and and general destruction of entire communities.
They say "get over yourselves already".
Or just let it go!
They also don't like being reminded that many of their families owned/abused slaves in the 1800's.
Many convenient memories floating around still.
Sad you can't have it both ways.
Silly people.

re - Anonymous | 12:11 p.m.
re - to figures | 12:18 p.m

["You probably don't even know what FLDS stands for"]
fundamentalist latter day saints - which just means they practice what you are too afraid to do. the only reason you stopped was because you wanted Utah to be a state. Just like you accepted black because you got sued...

["Next time you open your pie hole do your research and don't believe everything you read"]

I read just fine - it's you that forgot your history.

["You have no idea what you're talking about"]

the FLDS is just like you with maybe one or two differences. you are much more like them than you are like regular people. you know it - i know it - why are you afraid to admit it?

Anon:

If Gays/Lesbians truly are "shoving their beliefs" down other peoples throats then the LDS church is doing the same in fighting them.

Marriage is not defined in any respect in the Constitution. This makes me suspect that you are a troll, since you blast one poster for writing about something that they apparently have limited knowledge of, then "ironically" misquote the U.S. Constitution in the same breath, all while establishing yourself as a raving conservative. To my fellow would-be bloggers, I say: Don't take the bait.

so anyways that would mean you just indicted the sheriff himself along with a whole other bunch who had to have looked the other way , since it is their relatives, faith and family involved in the grave robbing cases , right

I mean where else can you get to practice freedom of expression without fear of repercussions, even in Utah since it seems to be a spin the wheel on every issue when it comes to justice!

UTAH STATE CONSTITUTION

Article I, Section 29. [Marriage.]
(1) Marriage consists only of the legal union between a man and a woman.
(2) No other domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as a marriage or given the same or substantially equivalent legal effect.

Typically when someone says "the constitution" they are not talking about Utah's constitution.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

You need to calm down and admit that you are completely ignorant of either sect, and I say 'either' because they are so different in their attitude (beliefs apart) that they cannot even be sanely compared.

Oh, and for the fool who opened his mouth and said Mormons are not regular people I would just like him/her to know... It is better to be considered strange and to be mocked for being righteous than it is to be wicked and chain yourself to the devil's throne.

And a closing note, I just have one question: Did God ask Adam to go forth and replenish the earth with another guy?

["You need to calm down and admit that you are completely ignorant of either sect, and I say 'either' because they are so different in their attitude (beliefs apart) that they cannot even be sanely compared."]

their beliefs and practices (aside from polygamy) are the same as yours. you and they are pretty much the same. don't be so afraid to admit it.

["Oh, and for the fool who opened his mouth and said Mormons are not regular people I would just like him/her to know... It is better to be considered strange and to be mocked for being righteous than it is to be wicked and chain yourself to the devil's throne."]

the devil's throne? wow - you really are stuck in the myths, aren't you?

And a closing note, I just have one question: Did God ask Adam to go forth and replenish the earth with another guy?"]

i don't know. i'd ask one of the apostles (some of whom were gay) but they're all gone now. don't you realize that gays are God's creation? there wouldn't be any gays until there were 35 people (3%-4%).

The difference between FLDS amd LDS is that the FLDS break some fundamental laws that are in place. Polygamy is now against the law. Other annoying practices of the FLDS and other polygamous groups are: taking welfare to feed the excess wives and children that they are not able to support, forcing underage girls to marry older polygamous men, forcing young men and boys out of the society, reassigning wives and children to other men and kicking the original husbands out. Retrieving houses and other personal effects. Not to mention the practice of not finishing houses so that they don't have to pay taxes on them. Now there seems to be many great differences between the FLDS and the LDS. Anything that can break up the good old boy system of the FLDS police is a great plan to me.

that lds church members always tend to look the other way for this sect and others...otherwise why are there so many in draper, fillmore and the list of towns go on. and these guys are felons who allowed the sacred vote bougth and paid for by the law abiding citizens of other states, in fact other states don't condone them at all!!

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will excommunicate people for polygamy and they were "The Mormon Church" involved in the Prop 8 fight.
That said, there is no evidence stated in this article that this man had multiple wives. In fact, it never even states that he has even one wife. He was fired for failure to affirm a non-belief in polygamy, which is to say he was fired for what he believe not what he did.

To the 5:09 commentator,
Since the Church does not practice all members combining ownership, the LDS Church sends missionaries all over the world, the FLDS do not, the LDS Church allows all men regardless of race to hold the priesthood, the FLDS exclude men of African descent from the priesthood, and actually are effectively all of European descent, the FLDS wear long dresses, Mormons in general are hard to spot based on their dress, you will see women wearing knee-length dresses and member of both genders wearing shorts if you visit BYU during a weekday in May, right now probably not, but that is because of the weather.
I could cite other differences, from marriage age to views on the function of sex, but I think anyone who knows any Latter-day Saints and has even just seen pictures of FLDS women will have to agree that they wear very different styles of clothing.

lets take every one that is not flds who had sex before they even got out of grade school or high school and incriminate them. it would fill all the jails and you would be one of them.