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Tour Of Polygamist Communities

Those curious about the polygamous community that has thrived on the Utah/Arizona state line for nearly 75 years may now take a guided tour through what promoters bill as “the largest and most secluded polygamist colony” in America.

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Texas vs. FLDS: A Year After The Raid

by admin on March 29, 2009

Yearning For Zion Ranch

Women and children, members of the FLDS, are taken to the First Baptist Church in Eldorado, Texas, at the beginning of a raid on the YFZ Ranch that resulted in 439 children being removed from their families under allegations of abuse.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Reid said Friday he would reintroduce legislation setting up a federal task force to crack down on polygamy related crimes. Last year’s bill never reached a committee vote. Senator Harry Reid needs to stop using his religion to abuse another religion.

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Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer

HBO’s “Big Love” was created during a moment of boredom during a cross country drive for the two EP’s and showrunners, Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer.

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A West Texas judge on Friday agreed to end court oversight of 34 children from a polyamist group. Child Protective Services indicated last week that it would no longer pursue legal action against the parents of 34 children because the agency felt they were not in immediate danger. On Friday, State District Judge Barbara Walther agreed to the motion, without comment.

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Senator Reid

Senator Reid, Victims of Polygamy Assistance Act of 2008, Mormons, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FLDS, Yearning for Zion Ranch,

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Person of interest in polygamy raid in

by admin on July 15, 2008

A woman considered a person of interest in an investigation of phone calls that may have sparked a raid on a Texas polygamist group appeared in a Colorado courtroom Tuesday, a day after she was supposed to appear in a separate case.

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Love Your Lawyer Suit!

by admin on July 1, 2008

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Two Alpine attorneys help win back custody of hundreds of children taken by Texas’ Department of Family and Protective Services in the April raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in West Texas.

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Texas Raid Price Tag: $7 million

by admin on June 4, 2008

Removing 460 children from the FLDS compound and then reuniting them with their families will cost Texas $7 million. The price tag includes court costs to retain custody of the children, attempting to determine parentage through DNA testing and reuniting the children with their parents. The $7 million does not include more than $500,000 in estimated costs incurred by local governments whose law enforcement agencies were involved in the raid.

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ACLU joins legal fight in Texas

The American Civil Liberties Union is stepping away from merely observing the situation involving the hundreds of children placed in state protective custody in the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church’s YFZ Ranch. The ACLU of Texas filed a brief Thursday with the Texas Supreme Court, siding with a group of mothers seeking the immediate return of their children.

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Does Polygamy Have A Legal Future in the U.S.?

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While the FLDS drama has put polygamy on the front pages, what amazes me most about the issue are polygamists who live “normal” lives — and blog about it.

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Help Reduce Child Abuse: Legalize Polygamy Now!

The laws against polygamy are holdovers from a dark ages where homosexuality and interracial marriages were similarly outlawed. The proponents of outlawing homosexuality and interracial marriage could point to many problems associated with those practice when they were outlawed. However, upon close inspection, all of the violence, degradation, social harms, and psychological problems associated with these former illegal activities were in fact caused by their prohibition. The same is true of polygamy.

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They’re coming for your kids!

Whether they are “plural” or single, Wicca or just weird, bohemian or bourgeoisie – parents should take the kids and skedaddle when they hear that phrase “in the best interests of the child.” It is simply a license for the state to substitute its own judgment for that of the parents. Today, it’s polygamist parents – Kool-Aid drinkers is Bill O’Reilly’s favored sobriquet. Tomorrow, it’ll be the offspring of homeschoolers or global warming deniers.

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Many Polygamists Blend into Modern Society

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At least 37,000 men, women and children live in polygamous families from Canada to Mexico, with most of them in Utah, according to Anne Wilde, who has become an activist for plural marriage. Many of Utah’s polygamists draw a sharp distinction between themselves and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the polygamous sect raided by Texas authorities earlier this month because of allegations of physical and sexual abuse. By Wilde’s estimate, about 15,000 of Utah’s polygamists belong to no group at all.

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Who’s Behind the Texas FLDS Raid Fiasco?

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Sheriff Doran was itching for just one legal premise, no matter how tenuous it might be, to conduct such an operation against the FLDS. All he needed was the outcry from one person allegedly inside the ranch and a judge willing to subvert the Constitution. All Sheriff Doran had to do was to get his foot in the door, so to speak, of the YFZ ranch and law enforcement would be able to conduct an unhindered fishing expedition for the “evidence” necessary for the state to roundup all the children.

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Nevada Father Submits DNA, Lashes at Raid

Former FLDS member drives 1,200 miles in an effort to get his sons out. David J. Williams called the siege “an injustice” perpetrated by “unhonorable bastards.” Parents who do not provide DNA samples risk being held in contempt of court, said Janice Rolfe, a spokeswoman for the Texas Attorney General’s Office.

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