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Judge dismisses all Arizona charges against - Page 6 - General Religious Beliefs - Posted: 10th Jun, 2010 - 4:40pm
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It will be interesting to see where they all move to next. I have heard rumors that they are establishing a base in Canada. I remember 20 years ago when they had the "compound" in Salt Lake City. The "brethren" would meet weekly at a local restaurant and conduct their business meetings. There was always an air of secrecy as they gathered in their private dining room.
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Preserving that world was probably on Jeffs' mind when he decided in 2003 to move a large portion of his flock to the scrublands of West Texas. He perhaps imagined that on 1,300 acres of dusty ranchland behind barbed-wire fences and iron gates, his community would enjoy the fabled live-and-let-live world of the American frontier. After all, this was a wide-open land where good neighbors were neighborly but not nosy, where a man could turn a page and start anew with few questions raised about his past. "They thought they were safe behind those walls and that Texas would never mess with them," says Randy Mankin, the editor of the Eldorado Success, the small-town newspaper that has chronicled events at the nearby FLDS ranch from the compound's founding through the April 2008 raid by Texas officials that swept up more than 400 children. Jeffs probably thought history protected him. Texas was probably gun-shy after the 1993 Branch Davidian conflagration near Waco. There was also one legal precedent that gave the FLDS comfort: the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, that struck down the Texas sodomy law, closing the doors on the bedroom. The decision was hailed by gay activists as a landmark, but it also apparently heartened Jeffs. (It was soon cited by defense attorneys in their plans to appeal the 2003 conviction of a Utah man found guilty of underage sex and bigamy.) Says Mankin: "They thought the shadow of Waco would protect them, and they hung a lot of hope on Lawrence v. Texas." But there also is a tradition of tough - and swift - justice in West Texas. After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Texas sodomy law and news spread of the polygamists' move to the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a local state representative worked quickly and quietly to change the state's antiquated marriage laws. The age of consent was raised from 14 to 16, and marriages between stepchildren and stepparents were outlawed. The changes were modeled on a Utah law that was believed to have prompted Jeffs' decision to move his flock to more-remote places in Texas, Colorado and Mexico. |
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| It will be interesting to see where they all move to next. I have heard rumors that they are establishing a base in Canada. |
They already are well established in Canada, see This Thread in the LDS Mature Board. As for Warren Jeffs, he is done. His 'reign' has now turned into the 'fall'.
Post Date: 10th Feb, 2009 - 12:47pm / Post ID: #
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Warren Jeffs Beliefs Religious General
FLDS leader's life on the run is detailed in his dictations
As a fugitive sought by the FBI, Warren Jeffs traveled the country delivering the judgment of God. In notes, dictations, revelations and lessons to followers, the Fundamentalist LDS Church leader meticulously details his life as a fugitive, as an inmate in jail awaiting trial and as a leader still trying to minister to his faithful flock. The information comes from among 600 pages of exhibits attached to a Texas child custody case that were made public on Monday. Ref. Source 9
Warren Jeffs
According to the National Geographic, Warren Jeffs claimed that God guided his every action, no matter how small. One diary entry reads:
QUOTE "The Lord directed that I go to the sun tanning salon and get sun tanned more evenly on their suntanning beds."
Post Date: 10th Jun, 2010 - 4:40pm / Post ID: #
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Warren Jeffs General Religious Beliefs - Page 6
Judge dismisses all Arizona charges against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs
Judge Steven Conn dismissed the four charges of sexual misconduct with a minor after prosecutors filed a motion Wednesday requesting the dismissal. The charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled.
The court ordered the sheriff's office to transport Jeffs back to Utah, where his 2007 convictions on two counts of r-pe as an accomplice are on appeal. He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison for the charges, which involved Jeffs' role in the marriage of an underage follower to her then-19-year-old cousin. Ref. Source 9
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