FLDS please explain

[Daniel_Marsh]

US News

Utah trying to deal with lost boys
Jan 21, 2006, 3:13 GMT

SALT LAKE CITY, UT, United States (UPI) – Utah officials are considering legislation that would allow ‘lost boys,’ teenagers forced out of polygamous communities, to become legal adults.

The bill would give teens on their own the right to apply to be emancipated.

At a hearing this week, state Attorney General Mark Shurtleff testified in favor of the bill. He said boys who have the desire and skills to fend for themselves become homeless because as minors they cannot sign leases or even get medical care.

‘This isn`t just one or two boys,’ Shurtleff said. ‘We have identified well over 400 by name.’

Legislators pressed Shurtleff on why parents who abandon their sons are not prosecuted. He said most of the boys he has talked to see their parents as victims and do not want to cause trouble for them.

While polygamy is illegal in Utah, it is practiced in a number of communities there and in neighboring states.

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[Daniel_Marsh]

President Joseph F. Smith’s later statement of 1904-APR-6 read, in part:

“Inasmuch as there are numerous reports in circulation that plural marriages have been entered into contrary to the official declaration of President Woodruff, of September 24, 1890, commonly called the Manifesto… I, Joseph F. Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, hereby affirm and declare that no such marriages have been solemnized with the sanction, consent or knowledge of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”

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[Lapsed]

Like the Catholic Church, the LDS church has many off shoots.

Some, like the Reformed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now called the Community of Christ), which started at the death of Joe Smith and didn’t follow Brigham Young, are decidedly liberal.

Others, like the FLDS, split off when the main Mormon church made one of their numerous doctrinal flip flops, and insist on doing things the old way, though for most of these ones, polygamy seems to be the big issue.

Think of them as the Mormon version of protestants.

We have one of these groups running a town in BC called Bountiful where the illegal polygamy has been ignored by all levels of government for decades.