Security Increased for FLDS Hearing Today

Deseret News ^ | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | Ben Winslow and Pat Reavy

[Admin Moderator]

He’s playing games to make an association between FLDS and LDS, even though LDS has disavowed FLDS. Some folks just want to take these threads into Mormon-bashing territory instead of sticking to commenting on the specifics of the story.

[svcw]

No I do not know why.
If I knew why I would not ask.
The rules are not laid out evenly so it is difficult to keep track.
Again I do not know why.
If you wish not to reveal it publicly tell me privately or cancel my account and be done with it. My head spins trying to figure it out regardless of what is written under "the rules" because as we have all seen these rules are not applied equally.

[commonguymd]

Honestly, some posters entire existence on here is do just that, for years now.

I think it is rather silly and stupid myself.

[ladyjane]

The pictures of those ‘leaders’ of the FDLS church are really creepy.

What kind of church uses coded messages and security forces? Really creepy.

[Admin Moderator]

Don’t give me that nonsense. You go to great lengths to twist around the FLDS acronym, and now you act all innocent? You think we were born yesterday?

[commonguymd]

That is smart. Some folks live and breath every syllable she spits here.

[Admin Moderator]

For you who just posted comment #37- we’ll handle it. Lets not let this turn into a fight.

[Admin Moderator]

Correction #46- 37 was my post.

[svcw]

Hardly innocent.
If you however are offend by ( ) there is nothing I can do. I now understand why you pulled the post. I do not understand how in an open post offense is so easily offered.

[commonguymd]

The Vatican has its own security force.

[San Jacinto]

Some folks just want to take these threads into Mormon-bashing territory instead of sticking to commenting on the specifics of the story.

I certainly noticed that. The story has many interseting aspects-- legal, social, state power, when a society should tolerate funky religious beliefs and at what point is the line crossed into patently illegal behavior-- a lot to talk about.

Robust debate is cool, but seeing someone just bash another's religion for no reason other than to disply one's own bigotry is not particularly interesting.

[commonguymd]

Amen to that.

[JRochelle]

So are you saying that in the threads that were pulled, there were no complaints about the religious issue coming up?

[Admin Moderator]

If you however are offend by ( ) there is nothing I can do

Oh, I am not offended. I am highly annoyed that, when told you should not use (f)lds, you thought you could be cute and change it to ( ) flds and somehow that would not run afould of the larger edict to not deliberately try to associate FLDS with LDS. Don't play games with FR rules - that can get you in hot water a lot faster than not being aware of the rules.

[Alice in Wonderland]

You might, but I don’t, consider them a religious group. They became a ‘church’ in 1987, hoping to hide behind the word ‘religion’ in a lawsuit filed by former members. I think of them as a bunch of criminals.

[Admin Moderator]

So are you saying that in the threads that were pulled, there were no complaints about the religious issue coming up?

In the two I am aware of, the mods discussed the fact that FLDS threads in question were drifting off topic into bashing of the larger Mormon church and reached a consensus that the threads should be pulled for that reason.

[ejonesie22]

Indeed...

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

So I guess Governor Perry and the Texas Rangers have bveen issuing deaths threats to this girl’s lawyer as part of their grand frame-up of FLDS, as some will actually argue on this board?

[ejonesie22]

Yeah, the is a great plan...