http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23807/flds-united-effort-plan-supreme-court-challenge http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23807/flds-united-effort-plan-supreme-court-challenge#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:25:21 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23807 A polygamous sect is asking the Utah Supreme Court to overturn a state court decision that stripped the religious purposes from its communal land trust.

In a court filing Tuesday, attorneys for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints say making the United Effort Plan Trust secular was a violation of the faith's constitutionally protected religious rights. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23807/flds-united-effort-plan-supreme-court-challenge/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22877/united-effort-plan-trust-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22877/united-effort-plan-trust-3#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:58:40 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22877 The fight over the proposed sale of property from a communal trust set up by a polygamous sect intensified Thursday as the trust overseer alleged there is a "conspiracy" to thwart his efforts.

In a new court document, Bruce R. Wisan refutes claims he is waging war against or seeking to destroy the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Instead, he accused sect members of ''a conspiracy of noncooperation, hostility and sabotage'' against the United Effort Plan Trust that now includes filing "frivolous" lawsuits.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22877/united-effort-plan-trust-3/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22790/flds-temple-site http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22790/flds-temple-site#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:34:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22790 A swath of farmland on the Utah-Arizona border has become the subject of the latest legal war involving the polygamous sect. FLDS members Willie Jessop, Dan Johnson and Merlin Jessop are seeking to halt plans by the court-appointed special fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust to sell Berry Knoll.

If a proposed sale of Berry Knoll Farm is allowed to proceed, it will divest the FLDS Church of one of its most sacred sites and place it in the hands of a rival religious group, three sect members allege.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22790/flds-temple-site/feed 0