Canadian officials probe polygamous church cult allegations
By Michele Mandel
Toronto Sun November 29,2012 “In the heart of pastoral Ontario, Carol Christie lived a nightmare that she insists exists to this day. And finally the OPP are looking into her bombshell allegations of a church cult that condones polygamy, underage sex, physical abuse and brainwashing ...” [Read the rest of the Toronto Sun article by clicking here] Texas A.G. sues to take plyg ranch FLDS polygamist compound near Eldorado, Texas
Dallas News
November 28, 2012 The Texas attorney general’s office has gone to court in hopes of seizing the Eldorado ranch of a polygamist Mormon sect. Read the Dallas News article by clicking here. FBI: Most-wanted fugitive
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Current online ad for City Creek Center, Salt Lake CIty’s newest mall. Today’s once-polygamist Mormon Church counsels women that tight and/or backless attire is immodest and should not be worn. The Mormon Church also happens to own City Creek Center.
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Court upholds sale of polygamous Mormon-offshoot church assets
November 5, 2012
Ashbury Park Press
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a polygamist sect on the Utah-Arizona border waited too long to challenge a court-ordered takeover, clearing the way for state authorities to break up a church trust and sell assets including ... [read the rest of the story by clicking here]
Ashbury Park Press
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a polygamist sect on the Utah-Arizona border waited too long to challenge a court-ordered takeover, clearing the way for state authorities to break up a church trust and sell assets including ... [read the rest of the story by clicking here]
Judge orders meeting on payment for manager of polygamous sect’s trust
October 22, 1012
Accountant Bruce Wisan says he is owed $5.64 million in legal fees, unpaid debts
By Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune
A judge has ordered Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to appear in court to discuss how the state will pay millions in past-due fees to the accountant in charge of a polygamous sect’s seized property trust. Click here to read the entire Salt Lake Tribune story.
Accountant Bruce Wisan says he is owed $5.64 million in legal fees, unpaid debts
By Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune
A judge has ordered Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to appear in court to discuss how the state will pay millions in past-due fees to the accountant in charge of a polygamous sect’s seized property trust. Click here to read the entire Salt Lake Tribune story.
Mormonism and racism
Important video by Brian Keith Dalton (aka “Mr. Deity”)
October 19, 2012
SL Tribune: Utah high court deals blow to polygamous sect in property trust case
October 2, 2012
Warren Jeffs » Controlled $114 million trust before 2005 state takeover
By Lindsay Whitehurst
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Supreme Court dealt a serious blow Tuesday to the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs in an epic legal battle over its $114 million property trust.
The decision could void a landmark ruling handing the trust back to the sect and makes it much more likely that the trust, taken over by the state in 2005, will stay under government control.
Utah’s high court on Tuesday reinforced its 2010 decision that the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus of Latter-Day Saints waited too long — three years — to challenge the state’s takeover of the trust, which holds nearly all the land, homes and property in the sect’s home base of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article.
Warren Jeffs » Controlled $114 million trust before 2005 state takeover
By Lindsay Whitehurst
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Supreme Court dealt a serious blow Tuesday to the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs in an epic legal battle over its $114 million property trust.
The decision could void a landmark ruling handing the trust back to the sect and makes it much more likely that the trust, taken over by the state in 2005, will stay under government control.
Utah’s high court on Tuesday reinforced its 2010 decision that the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus of Latter-Day Saints waited too long — three years — to challenge the state’s takeover of the trust, which holds nearly all the land, homes and property in the sect’s home base of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article.
SL Tribune polygamy blog: Big decision coming tomorrow
Trib plyg blogger Lindsay Whitehurst
The Utah Supreme Court will release a decision tomorrow that will almost certainly decide the fate of the polygamous sect property trust once controlled by Warren Jeffs. This is kind of a big deal... (click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article)
State-appointed polygamous trust boss sees trespass charges dropped
September 17, 2011
From the Salt Lake Tribune: Arizona prosecutors dropped trespassing charges Monday against an accountant appointed by a Utah judge to oversee a polygamous sect’s communal property trust. Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune story.
From the Salt Lake Tribune: Arizona prosecutors dropped trespassing charges Monday against an accountant appointed by a Utah judge to oversee a polygamous sect’s communal property trust. Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune story.
Brazilian trio gets in on the polygamy act
August 31, 2012
From the CNN website: Brazilian public notary Claudia do Nascimento Domingues set off a firestorm by granting Brazil's first civil union to a trio, an act so unprecedented that there isn't a word for it in Portuguese. Uniao poliafetiva is the label she created. "Polyfidelitous union" is her best guess in English. Click here to read the CNN article.
From the CNN website: Brazilian public notary Claudia do Nascimento Domingues set off a firestorm by granting Brazil's first civil union to a trio, an act so unprecedented that there isn't a word for it in Portuguese. Uniao poliafetiva is the label she created. "Polyfidelitous union" is her best guess in English. Click here to read the CNN article.
Mormon Church okays drinking Coke. Sort of.
August 31, 2012
From The Salt Lake Tribune: On Wednesday, the LDS Church posted a statement on its website saying that "the church does not prohibit the use of caffeine" and that the faith’s health-code reference to "hot drinks" "does not go beyond [tea and coffee]." Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article.
From The Salt Lake Tribune: On Wednesday, the LDS Church posted a statement on its website saying that "the church does not prohibit the use of caffeine" and that the faith’s health-code reference to "hot drinks" "does not go beyond [tea and coffee]." Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article.
Judge refuses to dismiss ‘Sister Wives’
lawsuit over polygamy
Prosecutor’s pledge not to charge Kody Brown family called a ploy.
By Lindsay Whitehurst
The Salt Lake Tribune, Aug 17 2012
A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a family of reality TV show stars who want to see polygamy decriminalized.
Utah state attorneys argued the "Sister Wives" suit should be dismissed after a prosecutor pledged not to prosecute them for bigamy, but U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups disagreed. In his Friday ruling, Waddoups wrote that a new Utah County Attorney’s Office policy to avoid prosecuting consenting adult polygamists in the future seems to have been a ploy to avoid the suit.
The "strategic attempt to use the mootness doctrine to evade review in this case draws into question the sincerity of [the Utah County Attorney’s contention that prosecution of plaintiffs for violating this statute is unlikely to recur," Waddoups wrote. Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article
By Lindsay Whitehurst
The Salt Lake Tribune, Aug 17 2012
A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a family of reality TV show stars who want to see polygamy decriminalized.
Utah state attorneys argued the "Sister Wives" suit should be dismissed after a prosecutor pledged not to prosecute them for bigamy, but U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups disagreed. In his Friday ruling, Waddoups wrote that a new Utah County Attorney’s Office policy to avoid prosecuting consenting adult polygamists in the future seems to have been a ploy to avoid the suit.
The "strategic attempt to use the mootness doctrine to evade review in this case draws into question the sincerity of [the Utah County Attorney’s contention that prosecution of plaintiffs for violating this statute is unlikely to recur," Waddoups wrote. Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article
APPALLING:
Religious leader who felt “divinely inspired” to have sex with 15-year-old is free on probation
A religious sect member who had sex with an underage girl has been sentenced to probation after 240 days in jail. He reported having had an "impression" that he should have sex with the teen, whereupon his “prophet” said, "It’s God. You better go fulfill it." Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article.
Jeffs excommunicates for “unauthorized sex”
“Even as his followers’ home base comes under fire from a federal civil rights lawsuit, polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been excommunicating dozens of people, apparently accusing them of breaking his ban on sex, former sect members say...” Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune article.
NY Times mentions Romney’s plyg roots (but Romney doesn’t)
June 23, 2012
“Romney did tell the inspiring story of his father’s emigration from Mexico at the age of 5, although not the part about how the family had gone down there in the first place to avoid American laws against polygamy.” Click here to read the NYT editorial. (Opens in a separate window.)
“Romney did tell the inspiring story of his father’s emigration from Mexico at the age of 5, although not the part about how the family had gone down there in the first place to avoid American laws against polygamy.” Click here to read the NYT editorial. (Opens in a separate window.)
Polygamous towns face federal lawsuit for religious discrimination
June 22, 2012
The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against two towns dominated by a polygamous sect on Thursday, accusing officials of failing to protect nonmembers and enforcing the edicts of leader Warren Jeffs above the law. Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune story. (Opens in a separate window.)
The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against two towns dominated by a polygamous sect on Thursday, accusing officials of failing to protect nonmembers and enforcing the edicts of leader Warren Jeffs above the law. Click here to read the Salt Lake Tribune story. (Opens in a separate window.)
Warren Jeffs to followers: Only 15 men allowed to father children
June 19, 2012
COLORADO CITY, AZ (ABC 4 News) - Former members of the FLDS polygamist group are saying Warren Jeffs has a perverse, new math when it comes to sex: 15 men for thousands of women. Click here to read the rest of the ABC News story. (Opens in a separate window.)
COLORADO CITY, AZ (ABC 4 News) - Former members of the FLDS polygamist group are saying Warren Jeffs has a perverse, new math when it comes to sex: 15 men for thousands of women. Click here to read the rest of the ABC News story. (Opens in a separate window.)
News & interviews with Joanne Hanks...
Joanne Hanks interviewed
on Mormon-friendly
The Cultural Hall podcast
Joanne provides background that will resonate with practicing Mormons (LDS) and fill in gaps for non-Mormons. Listen now by clicking the “play” arrow here:
From the archives2003 Vogue article featuring the Hanks family (right after they left the cult)
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HILARIOUS!
Listen to Joanne Hanks’ Radio From Hell interview
Radio From Hell is Utah’s most popular morning show. Kerry, Bill and Gina had a blast visiting with Joanne. You gotta hear this! Click the “Play” arrow now:
Check out Joanne's interview on Skepticality podcast
Joanne Hanks interviewed on popular Token Skeptic podcast, hosted by Kylie Sturgess
Token Skeptic’s Kylie Sturgess
Transcript of Joanne’s CNN interview (from The Best of Paula Zahn Now)
Air date: December 31, 2003
ZAHN: Polygamy was outlawed in the United States more than 100 years ago. Though illegal, there are Americans who live in polygamous relationships. They see nothing wrong in being married to multiple spouses. This report pulls back the curtain on one polygamous marriage.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ZAHN (voice-over): Jeff and Joanne Hanks, 1998.
JOANNE HANKS, FIRST WIFE: We both believed that it was something that was right, that we needed to do, and so we talked about it for at least a couple of years...
(Click here to read the rest of the transcript. Opens in separate window; scroll down about two-thirds of the page.)
ZAHN: Polygamy was outlawed in the United States more than 100 years ago. Though illegal, there are Americans who live in polygamous relationships. They see nothing wrong in being married to multiple spouses. This report pulls back the curtain on one polygamous marriage.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ZAHN (voice-over): Jeff and Joanne Hanks, 1998.
JOANNE HANKS, FIRST WIFE: We both believed that it was something that was right, that we needed to do, and so we talked about it for at least a couple of years...
(Click here to read the rest of the transcript. Opens in separate window; scroll down about two-thirds of the page.)
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