Posted on 02/05/2013 8:08:03 PM PST by Colofornian
Police in a Utah town dominated by one of the largest polygamous sects in the U.S. have been stopping women from leaving, according to a top lawman.
Arizona's attorney general Tom Horne yesterday announced a criminal probe of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and the Marshal's Office, which serves as a small police force in the twin polygamous towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona.
During a news conference held in Phoenix, Mr Horne also announced that a 26-year-old woman had been granted temporary custody of her six children and had fled the town of Colorado City, the home base of the FLDS.
He said she was forced by by its jailed leader Warren Jeffs to marry her brother-in-law at the age of 14, and had since been virtually held captive in the town on the Utah-Arizona border, along with many other women who want to leave.
'What they do is say, "Everybody watch her so she won't run away". Then she can't leave,' Horne said.
'Women who wanted to escape have been forcibly held by the marshals against their will.'...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’m sad about all of the above.
I am also sad that so many seem anxious to smear group A with the misdeeds of group B.
Despite the fact that group B withdrew from group A many decades ago and denounces it as a tool of the Devil. And that group A excommunicates those who practice the essential teaching of group B.
As I said before, I’m not a fan of the Mormon Church(es), LDS or (especially) FLDS. But I think each group should be criticized for its own misdeeds rather than those of another group with a similar name and related though distinct teachings.
People have hollered at me similarly when I object to unfair and inaccurate criticism of Muslims. I do NOT object to fair and accurate criticism of Islam or Mormonism. And I think both groups have plenty to criticize that is entirely accurate.
Think of it this way. When the term “Catholic” is used, 99% of the population thinks of the RCC and only of the RCC, though there are other “Catholic” groups.
Assume one of these groups takes up the practice of human sacrifice and headlines all over the world read, “Catholics Perform Human Sacrifice.”
Would that be fair to the RCC or its many non-human sacrificing members around the world?
Elsie it would be nice if you just never posted to me again, I don’t need it and I’m not going to wade through your long spams.
This is news article about the flds, who refer to themselves as mormon.
This is also an article about how they treat their women and girls, which you did not mention.
That is what I find sad.
I would disagree that the SLC-lds are in disagreement with the flds, I would say they are embarrassed that the flds openly practices what the SLC-lds turn a blind eye too.
In your explanation (thanks by the way), you do not express sadness over the main part of the article, the mistreatment of the women.
That’s what makes me sad.
Turn of the century in Orderville. Tom and his daughters. All prospects as the pony express never came through here to let them know the news from ten years earlier.
On another note, my great grandfather took his two youngest wives to Mexico in 1890. He would sneak back up to Ogden Utah dressed in drag to visit the rest of the family. Proud moments in Family Binger.
Nope...
Nana, wait...what? I have never heard that before. Interesting
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