The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), a worldwide church that is headquartered in Salt Lake City and has over 13 million members, has released the results of a survey that indicate Americans confuse the FLDS Church (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) with the LDS Church.
36% mistakenly believe the YFZ [...]
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36. Even though the appeals court explicitly rejected the CPS interpretation that the YFZ Ranch constitutes a single household, Judge Walther persisted in treating the FLDS in a manner that remained, essentially, a one-household approach.
The appeals court wrote:
The notion that the entire ranch community constitutes a “household” … and [...]
The Texas Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding the decision of the Texas Court of Appeals (see previous post regarding appeals court ruling), with three of the justices concurring in part and dissenting in part from the opinion.
The Supreme Court addressed the removal of the children from the ranch:
“The Department [Texas Department of Family [...]
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As the insanity continues, it’s now a tie game…
26. The Texas Court of Appeals, Third District, found that evidence to support the CPS claim that the FLDS community constituted a single household “was not legally or factually sufficient.” The court summarized the CPS reasoning as follows:
All 468 children were [...]
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In which the contest begins…
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1. Legal action should be directed at individuals, based on evidence of specific actions committed by those individuals, rather than being directed against a community.
2. The government actions against the FLDS appear to violate the first amendment guarantee [...]
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In the ongoing contest between King George and the State of Texas, the State of Texas is rapidly catching up:
24. The Utah Attorney General, who has experience dealing with polygamist groups, has questioned the approach of Texas authorities. He is quoted as having said, “There is that sweeping statement [...]
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16. Court testimony indicating that Child Protective Services relied on information from a former FLDS member and from a psychiatrist familiar with the Branch Davidians appears to indicate that CPS knew the conclusions they wanted to reach before moving against the FLDS community. Relying on the witness of a [...]
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14. Weighing allegations of sexual abuse by the FLDS community against known problems with the Texas foster care system, it is not clear that removing all the children from their homes and placing them in state protective custody was the lowest risk option for these children. The Texas Appleseed [...]
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11. With the FLDS children having been in state custody for over one month, state officials still have not enabled a comprehensive program of parental visits. As mothers across the nation observed Mother’s Day today, we should pause to reflect that 464 FLDS children are currently separated from their [...]
