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Thursday July 31, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: 
A physician from a polygamous sect was released from the Schleicher County Jail on Tuesday after posting bail, but four other men have not yet been released.The five men, all members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, appeared before Justice of the Peace James Doyle Tuesday on charges related to sexual assaults of minors.
Friday July 25, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: 
Polygamous sects that have spread throughout the United States and beyond are “a form of organized crime,” largely unchecked by law enforcement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday. Sen. Harry Reid says polygamous sects have “wrongly cloaked themselves in the trappings of religion.” Sen. Harry Reid says polygamous sects have “wrongly cloaked themselves in the trappings of religion.” He is proposing a federal-state partnership aimed at policing such communities. [video]
Thursday July 24, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: 
Amid indictments in Texas alleging sexual assault of underage girls and following a raid of a polygamous compound, senators will take a look at efforts to crack down on crimes associated with polygamy during the first hearing focused on the issue since 1955. State and federal prosecutors, along with former polygamists, will testify before the panel, and although not scheduled as a witness, members of a pro-polygamy group plan to hand out leaflets defending the plural marriage lifestyle.
FLDS • Polygamy:
Texas Rangers and prosecutors prepared Wednesday to arrest five members of a polygamous sect indicted the day before with their imprisoned leader on charges relating to under-age marriages and bigamy. Also Wednesday, supporters and critics of the sect converged on Washington for a Senate committee hearing on “crimes associated with polygamy.”
FLDS • Polygamy:
Texas authorities began looking Wednesday for five indicted followers of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, men accused of sexual assault of a child, bigamy and failing to report child abuse.FLDS member and spokesman Willie Jessop said Wednesday that law enforcement officials had not yet disclosed who they were looking for or tried to enter the ranch, but he said members would cooperate.
Wednesday July 23, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: 
A Texas grand jury on Tuesday charged the jailed polygamist leader of a breakaway Mormon sect with sexually assaulting a child and indicted five followers after state officials raided a polygamist ranch near Eldorado in April. Included in the indictments issued by a grand jury in Schleicher County, Texas, was Warren Jeffs, the controversial spiritual leader and self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Sunday July 13, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: Texas authorities working to build a criminal case against polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs took a third genetic sample from an FLDS mother and her child on Saturday.A spokesman for the Attorney General said the AG’s office is “working with local and state investigators into possible criminal activity at the polygamist compound.”
Thursday July 10, 2008
FLDS • Mormonism/Mormon Church • Polygamy: The doctrines and practices of Mormon Fundamentalists are closer to those of the original Mormon Church than are the doctrines and practices of today’s Mormon Church.
Fundamentalist Mormons have responded to a less-than-honest PR campaign by the LDS Church.
Fundamentalist Mormons have responded to a less-than-honest PR campaign by the LDS Church.
Wednesday July 9, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: Jailed cult leader Warren Jeffs is hospitalized for an unspecified medical problem.
Saturday June 28, 2008
Cult Experts • Cults • FLDS • ICSA • International Cultic Studies Association • Polygamy: In the aftermath of the raid by Texas authorities into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints’ Yearning for Zion ranch, polygamous sects are an issue of discussion at the International Cultic Studies Association meeting this weekend at the University of Pennsylvania.
At the conference top officials for the Utah and Arizona attorneys general were peppered with questions about prosecuting polygamous crimes.
At the conference top officials for the Utah and Arizona attorneys general were peppered with questions about prosecuting polygamous crimes.
Friday June 27, 2008
FLDS • Mormonism/Mormon Church • Polygamy: 
Mormon leaders today said they are stepping up efforts to make the public aware of the differences between the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), which has recently garnered widespread national attention.Then we fill in the details the LDS leaves out.
Tuesday June 24, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: In the midst of much mediocre — and downright terrible — reporting on the FLDS raid, one reporter writes an account that should be required reading for those interest in the issues surrounding the polygamous sect. Also: A daughter of cult leader Warren Jeffs fights her court-appointed attorney.
Tuesday June 17, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: Spokeman Paul Murphy said an invitation has always been extended to the FLDS to participate in the Safety Net Committee — a group of polygamists, social service agencies and government bureaucrats who work together to help prevent abuse and neglect and open a bridge-building dialogue.
Wednesday June 11, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: Texas police have been standing guard outside the home of the Texas judge who ordered the removal of all the FLDS children from the YFZ Ranch.
The heightened security was ordered after authorities from Utah and Arizona warned them to be on the lookout for FLDS “enforcers,” the Deseret News has learned.
The heightened security was ordered after authorities from Utah and Arizona warned them to be on the lookout for FLDS “enforcers,” the Deseret News has learned.
FLDS • Polygamy:
Rod Parker, the Salt Lake City-based attorney for the FLDS, wouldn’t say when a lawsuit will be filed but says the sect’s lawyers believe that they have grounds for suit after the Texas Supreme Court ordered the return of 440 children to the compound.He said that many of the children need extensive counseling after their two-month separation from their parents and that the 1,691-acre ranch was physically damaged during the raid.
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