Comments on: FLDS Eldorado Texas, Hildale Utah, Colorado City Arizona, Bountiful BC

By: Shirley

Shirley — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:57:18 +0000

The authorities seem to be the only ones who are breaking laws and Judge Walther should be permanently booted.
Does anyone know who called in the troops and heavy armor to remove one non-existant 16 year old who had called for help 5 days before?

By: saints index

saints index — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:13:24 +0000

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By: kathy

kathy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:53:44 +0000

You know i believe the kids arent haveing any kind of life they had all theire rights away and cant make any decissions for them self who gives any right to decide what theses girls will do who they are forced to marry and forced to have sex with all those men i feel they have been violated very bad i hope god will bless theses children and that they will get theire lifes on a right track

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:34:47 +0000

~~Haven’t seen it anywhere, maybe The Pologamy Files at the Salt Lake Tribune can help you or someone here - http://texaspolygamy.blogspot.com/.~~

I found it. http://captivefldschildren.org/

By: kerri

kerri — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:05:49 +0000

I hear that they YFZ ranch has their own website. Does anybody know the address?

By: Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:34:27 +0000

For an extensive history of the FLDS and Mormonism in general, I highly recommend Jon Krakauer’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’.

The book shines a light on certain aspects and events in the early history of Mormonism that the mainstream church would prefer to forget, and it draws a straight line between the violence and abuse in the FLDS and the founding principles of Smith and Young.

The LDS has tried to portray the book as anti-Mormon, and it could be argued that Krakauer takes a specific point of view (he always does) that happens to paint a rather unflattering picture of the LDS. But from what I know everything in there is factually correct. He simply argues that one shouldn’t bury the past or ignore the ugly truth in the interest of religious tolerance.