Witness list at Jeffs trial almost a family affair
ST. GEORGE, Utah
"Mothers will be pitted against daughters, sons against fathers when the trial of Warren Jeffs, the polygamous prophet, begins possibly on Thursday.
The splitting of families on the witness lists echoes the fissure Jeffs has caused in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) and also the deep and unbridgeable gap between those who still believe in the FLDS and those who don't.
The FLDS is a breakaway sect of the mainstream Mormon church that has about 8,000 members in the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., a thousand or more in Eldorado, Tex., and about 600 followers in Bountiful, B.C."
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"Mothers will be pitted against daughters, sons against fathers when the trial of Warren Jeffs, the polygamous prophet, begins possibly on Thursday.
The splitting of families on the witness lists echoes the fissure Jeffs has caused in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) and also the deep and unbridgeable gap between those who still believe in the FLDS and those who don't.
The FLDS is a breakaway sect of the mainstream Mormon church that has about 8,000 members in the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., a thousand or more in Eldorado, Tex., and about 600 followers in Bountiful, B.C."
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Technorati Tags: Warren Jeffs, polygamy, trial, FLDS, Mormonsims, Joshuah's House
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2 comments:
"The FLDS is a breakaway sect of the mainstream Mormon church that has about 8,000 members in the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz."
This statement, while accurate, is poorly worded. Grammatically, it suggests that the "Mormon" church has the 8,000 members, when, in fact, that is the FLDS religion.
The "Mormon" church, or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, not FLDS) is a 13-million member, worldwide church that does not practice polygamy and excommunicates those who engage in the practice.
Perhaps you would be so kind as to also point this out to Daphne Bramham, the reporter at the Vancouver Sun who apparently wrote the article.
And thanks for confirming that indeed the Mormon church excommunicates polygamists, which I too pointed out in response to an earlier comment that suggested otherwise.
My description of the mainstream Mormon church would differ a little from yours though: I think they are a 13 million member organization that ultimately compromised their own religious "convictions" in the interest of political power, and if anything, the FLDS has remained true to the original revelation.
Grace and Peace,
Joshuah
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