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Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Today
The exact size of the FLDS Church is unknown due to the relatively closed nature of the organization, but the population is estimated between 6,000 to 10,000 in the two communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah.
The historic location of the church was in the two communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah. The church also has a long colony Abound, British Columbia.
Since the acquisition of land is now the longing for Zion Ranch 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Eldorado, Texas, there seems to be a shift in the headquarters of the church, along with a large exodus of the "most faithful" church members. Other newer church settlements 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Pringle, South Dakota and 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Mancos, Colorado.
Members of the FLDS Church have owned machine shops that aircraft parts can be sold to the United States government. From 1998 to 2007, the proceeds of that aircraft totaling more than $ 1.7 million.
History
Origins
See also: Mormon fundamentalism
The residents in Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, have a long history of practicing plural Marriage, dating from the mid 19th century. Brigham Young, then chairman of the LDS Church, which they once visited the area, "This will be the head one day and not the tail of the church. "The two cities were once known as Short Creek, officially established in 1913 as a ranching community.
The FLDS traces of its claim to spiritual authority accounts, starting with a statement published in 1912 by Lorin C. Woolley, 1886 of an alleged divine revelation thenDS Church President John Taylor. They see this 1886 revelation precludes the validity of the 1890 manifesto against the new plural marriages by members of the Church, issued by Wilford Woodruff, whom the LDS church recognizes as Taylor's successor. After the formal abolition of plural marriage by the LDS Church, many members around Short Creek and elsewhere continued, and even celebrated, plural marriages. In 1904, the LDS Church issued the Second Manifesto eventually excommunicated and who continue to take place or to enter into new plural marriages.
Short Creek soon became a meeting place for members of the polygamist LDS Church. In 1935, the LDS Church excommunicated Mormon residents of Short Creek who refused an oath to refrain sign of polygamy. Following this event, John Y. Barlow began leading a group of Mormon fundamentalists, who were devoted to maintaining the practice of multiple marriage. [Citation needed] The location on the border Utahrizona was thought to be ideal for the group because they are so able to prevent raids by moving over the state line.
Some of the locally prominent men in Short Creek, after being excommunicated by the LDS Church, later became the leaders of the Mormon fundamentalist movement, including Lorin C. Woolley, J. Leslie Broadbent, John Y. Barlow, Charles Seat, Joseph White Musser, LeGrand Wooley, and Louis A. Kelsch. In 1932, these leaders created the organization known as the Council of Friends, a group of seven high priests who were told that the administrative body priesthood on earth. The Council of Friends, the body of the Mormon church Short Creek fundamentalists.
The early years of the movement were controversial and many different interpretations and opinions among leaders saw how plural marriage should be practiced. These claims eventually led to the subsequent schism that many Mormon fundamentalist organizations that now exist, including the FLDS Church, the Apostolic United Brethren, and the last days of Christ church made or Kingston group. It is generally believed by all the sects of the early leaders fundamentalist movement revelation from God commanding that plural marriage should not cease.
FLDS splinter groups
In 1984, created a schism within the FLDS church just before the death of Leroy S. Johnson. A small group of FLDS disagreed with the "one-man rule" doctrine that the leadership the structure of the church changed, and that was fully implemented when Rulon Jeffs assumed his position as sole leader of the organization. These followers took up residence just south of Colorado City, Centennial Park, Arizona, who calls himself "the work of Jesus Christ," or "The Work" for short.
Also in 2002, when Warren Jeffs took over leadership, Winston Blackmore, who are already in Canada as the bishop of Abundance for the FLDS Church, was excommunicated by Jeffs in a clear power struggle. This led to a split within the community at Bountiful, British Columbia, with an estimated 700 FLDS members leaving the church to follow Blackmore.
Leaders
The FLDS Church was led by a succession of prophets, who believe they are called by God to lead. The first leader of the FLDS Church was John Y. Barlow, who led the community of Short Creek until his death on December 29, 1949. He was succeeded by Joseph White Musser, who was during a church leader by government action against polygamy known as the Short Creek raid in 1953, in which all members of the FLDS Church of Short Creek were arrested, including 236 children.
Musser led the community in a controversial appointment of Rulon Allred to a high position of authority in 1951 upset some members of the Short Creek community. Musser Allred appointed to his successor, but Allred was not accepted as his successor by the short Creek community. This led to a schism, with many followers to break off and join Allred, this spur became known as the Apostolic United Brethren. The core group in the Short Creek area instead Session followed Charles as its leader.
Seat died in 1954 and Leroy S. Johnson was chosen to lead the Church in Short Creek. Johnson led the FLDS Church until his death in 1986. He was succeeded by Rulon Jeffs, who took the position of the Prophet, a title his predecessor refused to use. In later years Jeffs' his poor health led to his son Warren serving as leader of the church in his place, and After Rulon's death in September 2002, Warren Jeffs became leader of the FLDS Church. However, immediately after the Utah convicted him of being an accomplice to rape, was widely reported in Warren Jeffs the press that his leadership of the FLDS Church dismissal, although the statement his lawyers only addresses Jeffs' resignation from his position as a trustee "President of the Corporation of the President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Inc. "
Since no public statements by officials of the church points to a successor of Jeffs, it is not known who leads the FLDS Church, although it is very likely that Warren Jeffs remains at the helm of the church.
Leroy S. Johnson (deceased age 98), 19541986
Rulon T. Jeffs (deceased age 93), 19862002
Warren S. Jeffs (Residential), 2002resent? (Caught in 2007)
William E. Jessop, 20072010 (suspected leader)
Merril Jessop, 20072010 (de-facto leader)
Wendell L. Nielsen, 2010resent (President of the church corporate entity)
Legal problems and leadership battle
The home of former FLDS leader Warren Jeffs in Colorado City
In 2003, the church gets more attention from the State of Utah to the police Rodney Holm, a member of the church, was convicted of unlawful sexual conduct with a 16 – or 17-year-old and one count of bigamy for his marriage to and impregnation of plural wife, Ruth Stubbs. The conviction was the first legal action against a member of the FLDS church since the Short Creek raid.
In November 2003, church member David Allred purchased "As a hunting retreat of the 1,371-acre (5.55 km2) Isaacs Ranch 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Eldorado, Texas, in Schleicher county Road 300 and sent 30 to 40 employees in the construction of Colorado Cityildale to starting work on site. Improvements soon included three 3-story houses, each 8,000 to 10,000 square feet (930 m2), a concrete mixing plant and a plowed field. After seeing high-profile FLDS Church critic Flora Jessop on the ABC TV show Primetime Live on March 4, 2004, the Eldorado residents contacted Jessop. They examined and on March 25, 2004, Jessop held a press conference in Eldorado confirming that the new neighbors were FLDS Church adherents. On May 18, 2004, Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran and his Chief Deputy visited Colorado City and the FLDS Church officially acknowledged that the Schleicher County property would be a new foundation for the church. It has been reported in the media that the church has built a temple on the YFZ Ranch, supported by evidence, including aerial photographs of a large stone building (about 88 feet (27 m) wide) in a state of relative completion. A local newspaper, The Eldorado Success, reported that the temple foundation was dedicated January 1, 2005 by Warren Jeffs.
On January 10, 2004, Dan Barlow (the mayor Colorado City) and about 20 other men were excommunicated from the church and stripped of their wives and children (who would be assigned to other men), and the right to to live in the city. The same day, two teenage girls reportedly fled the towns with the help of activist Flora Jessop, who plural wives' escape proponents of polygamy. The two girls, Fawn Broadbent and Fawn Holm, soon found themselves in a highly publicized dispute over their freedom and authority. After the accusations were proven false by their parents, Flora helped them escape from state custody together on February 15 and ended up in Salt Lake City at the home of Fawn Holm's brother Carl's.
In October 2004, Flora Jessop reported that David Allred, a 60-acre parcel near Mancos, Colorado (midway between Cortez and Durango) bought about the same time he bought the Schleicher County property. [Citation needed] Allred told authorities the parcel is used as a hunting retreat. [Citation needed]
In July 2005, eight men of the church were indicted for sexual contact with minors. [Citation needed] All of them turned themselves in to police in Kingman, Arizona, within days. [Citation needed]
On July 29, 2005, Brent Jeffs filed accusing three of his uncles, including Warren Jeffs, of sexually assaulting him when he was a child. The suit also named the FLDS Church as a defendant. On August 10, former FLDS Church member Shem Fischer, Dan Fischer's brother, added the church and Warren Jeffs as defendants in a 2002 lawsuit claiming that he was illegally fired because he no longer held to the faith. Fischer, a salesman for a company in wooden cabinets Hildale, alleged church officials interfered with his relationship with his employer and blacklisted him. The claim against the company was thrown out because he was not fired from his job, but stop instead. [Citation needed]
In July 2005, six young adults lost boys who claimed they were driven from their homes on the border with Utahrizona competition for women to reduce, filed suit against the FLDS Church. "The [boys] have been excommunicated pursuant to that policy and practice and cut off from family, friends, benefits, business and labor, and supposedly condemned to eternal damnation, "their suit says." They have become 'Lost Boys' in the world outside the FLDS community. "[Citation needed]
On May 7, 2006, the FBI named Warren Jeffs to the ten most wanted fugitives list on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
August 1928, 2006, Warren Jeffs was recorded on Interstate 15 just north of Las Vegas, Nevada, after a routine traffic stop. Jeffs was tried in St. George, Utah, and a jury found him guilty of two counts of complicity in rape.
The mayor of Colorado City, Terrill C. Johnson was arrested on May 26, 2006, for eight fraudulent registration of a vehicle, the cost of registering his vehicles in a state other than he lived, which is a crime. He was booked at the Purgatory Correctional Facility in Hurricane, Utah, and was released after paying the $ 5,000 deposit in cash.
Short Creek raid
Cover story: Short Creek raid
On the morning of July 26, 1953, 102 Arizona State Police and National Guard soldiers attacked the fundamentalist Mormon community of Short Creek, Arizona. They arrested the entire population, including 236 children. Of these 236 children, 150 were not allowed to return to their parents for more than two years. Other parents never custody of their children.
The Short Creek raid was the largest mass arrest of polygamists in U.S. history, and it received much attention in the press. After the raid, polygamists were living there in 1960, Short Creek was renamed Colorado City.
April 2008 raid
Main article: YFZ Ranch
In April 2008, Texas Child Protective Services, acting on what later would turn into a bad tip from a person because of systematic child abuse on the FLDS Church Texas connection, took custody of all 439 children under 18 of the YFZ Ranch Church, assisted by a large force of Texas Rangers, who took control of the compound from April 3 to April 10. The raid generated intense media coverage in the U.S., especially in the southwest, and also garnered international attention. On May 29, the Texas Supreme Court upheld an appeals court ruling that Texas CPS was not justified in removing any children from the ranch and ordered the children returned to their parents.
The tip that the invasion was, is now believed to be a hoax are instigated by Rozita Swinton. Rozita Swinton was later criminal charges based on this false report and is believed to have submitted false reports in similar been exposed.
Birth defects
The Colorado City / Hildale area's world's highest incidence of fumarase deficiency, an extremely rare genetic disorder. Geneticists attribute this to the prevalence of cousin marriage between descendants of two of the founders of the city, Joseph Smith Jessop and John Yeates Barlow. It causes encephalopathy, severe mental retardation, unusual facial features, brains malformation, and epileptic attacks.
Distinctive doctrines
Marriage plural marriage and placement
See also: Exchange of Women
The FLDS Church teaches the doctrine of plural marriage, stating that a man with many wives is God, the doctrine is required for a man to receive the highest form of redemption. It is generally accepted in the church that a man must be a minimum of three women to fulfill this requirement. In connection with this doctrine Patriarchal doctrine, the belief that women should be subordinate to their husbands.
The church currently practices placement marriage, where a young woman of marriageable age is assigned to a husband by revelation from God to the leader of the church, which is considered a prophet. The prophet elects to take and give women and men according to their dignity. This is also called the law of placement.
Dress
In general, women do not cut their hair short or wear composition, pants or a skirt above the knee. Men wearing street clothes, usually a long-sleeved shirt with collar and full-length pants. Men and women are forbidden any tattoos or piercings. Women and girls usually wear long sleeves monochrome homemade "prairie dresses" with seams between ankle and mid-calf, with long stockings or trousers underneath, usually keep their hair cut.
Property
The land and houses occupied by the FLDS Church on the Utah / Arizona border are owned by the joint efforts Plan (UEP), was once a subsidiary organization of the church. The UEP is also owns the majority of the ownership of the companies by FLDS Church members settled in that area. The church views this "United Order" as a means of living the traditional Last Day Saint doctrine of the "Law of Consecration." The Attorney General of Utah filed a lawsuit and the holdings of the UEP in confiscated for current residents of Colorado City and Hildale. The Attorney General is looking to distribute the assets of the UEP of the FLDS Church members and former members who have contributed the UEP. In 2005, a court order froze the UEP pending a decision by the court. At the time of the ruling, the UEP was worth $ 100 million.
Homeschooling
In 2000, the Colorado City Unified School District had more than 1200 students. When Jeffs FLDS Church members in order of pulling children from public schools, the number dropped to about 250.
Temple Service
The FLDS Church is the sixth Latter Day Saint denomination to have built a temple.
Criticism of the Church
See also: Criticism of Mormonism and criticism of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Plural marriage
A view of the FLDS ranch in Eldorado, Texas
At the time of his death, church leader Rulon Jeffs confirmed and married father of 22 women more than 60 children. Current estimates state Warren Jeffs, this may have more than 60 women. When the type practiced polygamy is polygyny, critics of this lifestyle claim that its practice leads inevitably to bride shortages and likely to child marriages, incest and child abuse.
Critics claim that members of the Church laws violated when they participate in polygamy. Critics claim that incest and sexual abuse are common among church members.
Lost Boys
Main article: Lost Boys (Polygamy)
It has been reported by former members that the FLDS Church has excommunicated More than 400 teenage boys for offenses such as dating or listening to rock music. Antagonistic former members say that the real reason for this is excommunication that there are not enough women for each man to three or more women to receive. Six young adult men, between 18 and 22, filed a conspiracy lawsuit against Jeffs and Sam Barlow, a Mohave County Sheriff's Deputy and former close associate of Jeffs, for a "systematic excommunication" of young men to reduce competition for women.
Racism
In its Spring 2005 "Intelligence Report, Southern Poverty Law Center named the FLDS Church to" hate group " listing due to the doctrine of the church on the race, which include a fierce condemnation of interracial relationships. Warren Jeffs said: "The black race is the people that devil always been able to bring evil to the earth. "
Blood atonement
Former FLDS Church member Robert Richter reported on the Phoenix New Times Warren Jeffs, which has repeatedly alluded to the 19th-century doctrine of "blood atonement" in church sermons. Under the doctrine of blood atonement, certain serious sins such as murder, can only be reconciled through the death of the sinner.
See also
Caliente, Nevada: FLDS controversy
Escape (Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer book)
Former FLDS members
Lost Boys (Polygamy)
Under the Banner of Heaven
Polygamy: What Love Is This?
Notes
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^ The church has an estimated 8000 members Ben Winslow (2007-08-01). "37,000 'fundamentalists' Counted in and around Utah. "Deseret Morning News (reprinted at rickross.com). Http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy684.html.
^ Principle Voices – polygamist Census: Growing LDS splinter groups [dead link]
^ "The Primer" – helping victims domestic violence and child abuse in Polygamous Communities. A joint report by the offices of the Attorney General of Arizona and Utah.
^ YFZ Ranch – A journey through time, The Eldorado Success
Ab ^ Nancy Perkins (12/05/2007). "Warren Jeffs resigned as leader of the FLDS Church. "Deseret Morning News. Http://deseretnews.com/article/1, 5143,695233512,00. Html.
^ Brooke Adams (30/11/2007). "What William Warren said. "Salt Lake Tribune. Http://blogs.sltrib.com/plurallife/labels/William E. Jessop. HTM.
^ Brooke Adams and Mark Havnes (07/11/2007). "Records say FLDS boss tried suicide. Salt Lake Tribune (reprinted with worldwide religious news). http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=26801&con=4&sec=26.
^ "Judge Orders FLDS foster breastfeeding women with children". CNN. 04/23/2008. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/23/ng.01.html.
^ "Raid shines light on secretive polygamous sect. CNN. 04/08/2008. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/08/texas.ranch.ap/index.html.
^ Katherine Wojtecki (15/04/2008). "On the green gate, and then a glimpse of the polygamous life." CNN. http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/15/at-the-green-gate-and-then-a-glimpse-of-the-polygamists-life/.
^ Abcde Hilary Hylton, "a new prophet for the polygamists?", Time, 18/7/2008.
^ Ben Winslow (29/08/2007). "Awards for ex-polygamist". Deseret Morning News (reprinted at rickross.com). http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy692.html.
^ Jennifer Dobner (February 15, 2010). "Polygamous church in Utah names new president". Salt Lake City, UT: Associated Press. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100215/ap_on_re_us/us_polygamist_leader_church. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
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^ Adams, Brooke (February 2, 2010). "Polygamous sect has new president, but is still Jeffs FLDS prophet?". The Salt Lake Tribune (Hildale, UT). Http: / / www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14348960. Received February 17, 2010.
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^ Text by Brooke Adams, graphic by Todd Adams. "Polygamy Leadership Tree: Religious ideal grows, branches out" (PDF). The Salt Lake Tribune (reprinted by childbrides.org). http://childbrides.org/PolygamyLeaders.pdf.
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^ "Utah-based polygamous church led by Warren Jeffs captured names new president" fox13now (Salt Lake City, Utah: KSTU-TV) … February 15, 2010 http://www.fox13now.com/news/sns-ap-us–polygamistleader Church, 0.3470355. story. 15/02/2010 fetched.
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^ Hollow Horst, John (02/08/2006). "Birth defect is plaguing children in FLDS towns". Deseret Morning News. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0, 1249,635182923,00. html.
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^ The other five are the Church of Christ, the LDS Church, Community of Christ, the Apostolic United Brethren and the righteous branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Further reading / viewing
Bist Line, You Are The polygamists: A History of Colorado City, Arizona
Bradley, Martha Sontag Kidnapped from that country: the government attacks on the Short Creek polygamists
Watson, Marianne T., "Placement FLDS marriages"
Hales, Brian C. (2007). Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: Generations after the Manifesto. Greg Kofford Books. ISBN 1-58958-035-4 ..
Quinn, D. Michael (1998), "plural marriage and Mormon fundamentalism "Dialogue: a journal of Mormon Thought 31 (2): 168, http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dialogue&CISOPTR=10335&REC=20.
Krakauer, Jon: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (July 15, 2003)
Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer. Escape. Broadway Books, October 16, 2007
Wagoner, Richard S. Mormon Polygamy: A History
"The Primer" – helping victims of domestic violence and child abuse in Polygamous Communities. A joint report by the office of Attorney General Arizona and Utah.
Wagoner, Richard S. (1999). Mormon Polygamy: A History. United Kingdom: Prometheus Books. ISBN -10: 0941214796.
Wall, Elissa (2008). Stolen Innocence. New York: Harper Collins.
Main Street Church. Lifting the veil of Polygamy (2007). A documentary film about the history and contemporary manifestations of Mormon polygamy, including many testimonials.
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My mom says my aunt is really a man named Ken, who got his Weenie cut off and took some pills so he could wear a dress. She also says that he will burn in hell to do. She did not want me to see her, because mother says he will corrupt me and I will burn in hell too. I think she means by calling a kid with my aunt. I can not see her as anything but a girl. I've seen her in a bathing suit, and I think my mother is playing a joke on me, but my aunt knows boy stuff like how to work on cars and stuff. I know that my aunt has her feelings to hurt, because I saw tears down her cheek after my mother and got into an argument. Mother does not want me to call her that: she wants me to call her to him and Sir-I am confused? My aunt went to a wedding and dressed like a boy in a suit, but she looked like a girl in boys clothes. My aunt let me use her Yahoo account for this asking them typed for me.
Your mother has issues. No matter what your aunt is (or was) or how she lives her life. Like all human beings, she is loved for who she is. However, this is your mother you're talking about, and it is important to respect her feelings, too. Why is your mother transgender people so intolerant? If a soft way of asking her that, it may provide some revealing information. Maybe ask her why she affected her so much. Her fear is completely irrational, or they may have other problems with your aunt that she had not even been told about yet. If you love your aunt, then enjoy her company. And enjoy your parent company, also. But understand that the gap between them so deep you can enjoy their own company. You could ask your mother hellfire, the next time she threatens you with what the Bible says that hanging around with transgender people go to to hell. I suspect that she goes to a hard time finding that chapter and fresh.
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