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International Journal for the Study of New Religions 3.1 (2012) 117–122 ISSN 2041-9511 (print) ISSN 2041-952X (online) doi:10.1558/ijsnr.v3i1.117 Book Reviews Saints under Siege: The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, edited by Stuart A. Wright and James T. Richardson. New York University Press, 2011, 270pp., pb., $25.00; e-edition, $9.99. ISBN-13: 9780814795293. Keywords anticult movement (ACM), apostates, child abuse, Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS), polygamy, Yearning For Zion Ranch Reviewed by Spencer L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania, [email protected]. edu Identifying herself as Sarah Jessop—pregnant mother, abused 15 year old, and the seventh wife of the fictitious Yearning for Zion (YFZ) Ranch resi- dent Dale Barlow—Rozita Swinton’s call to the domestic violence hotline on April 3, 2008, set in motion a rescue mission and Texas state raid that would become the largest state custodial detention of children in U.S. history. As Saints under Siege demonstrates, however, Swinton—a 33-year-old woman from Colorado Springs—may have served as the catalyst for the raid on the 800-member Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) community near Eldorado, Texas, and the removal of 439 children from their families, but the raid on the YFZ Ranch was itself inevitable, given the state’s interest in minimizing the presence and influence of the FLDS community in Schleicher County, Texas. Saints under Siege’s strength resides in its multi-author and multi-hermeneutic approach as each chapter consid- ers a distinct set of historical, cultural, and political/legal realities underlying the raid. -
In the Supreme Court of British Columbia
BC su Poligamia IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Citation: Reference re: Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada, 2011 BCSC 1588 Date: 20111123 Docket: S097767 Registry: Vancouver In the Matter of: The Constitutional Question Act, R.S.B.C. 1986, c 68 And In the Matter of: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms And in the Matter of: A Reference by The Lieutenant Governor In Council Set Out in Order In Council No. 533 dated October 22, 2009 concerning the Constitutionality of s. 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46 Before: The Honourable Chief Justice Bauman Reasons for Judgment Counsel for the Attorney General of British Columbia: Counsel for the Attorney General of Canada: Counsel for the Reference Amicus: Counsel for the Interested Persons: Beyond Borders: Ensuring Global Justice for Children: British Columbia Civil Liberties Association: British Columbia Teachers’ Federation: Canadian Association for Free Expression: Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children and the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights: Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Assoc.: Christian Legal Fellowship: James Marion Oler and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: REAL Women of Canada: Stop Polygamy in Canada: West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund: Place and Dates of Trial: Place and Date of Judgment: Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION II. COURSE OF PROCEEDINGS A. The Reference Questions B. The Participants C. The Evidence D. Webcast of Final Submissions III. EVIDENTIARY ISSUES A. Factors Justifying a Liberal Approach to Admissibility in a Trial Reference 1. The Importance of Evidence in Charter Litigation 2. -
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ
Brigham Young University Law School BYU Law Digital Commons Utah Court of Appeals Briefs 2012 The undF amentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Thomas C. Horne; Bruce R. Wisan; Mark Shurtleff; and Hon. Denise Posse Lindberg; et al. : Brief of Appellant Utah Court of Appeals Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/byu_ca3 Part of the Law Commons Original Brief Submitted to the Utah Court of Appeals; digitized by the Howard W. Hunter Law Library, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; machine-generated OCR, may contain errors. Rodney R. Parker, Rick Van Wagoner, Frederick Mark Gedicks; Snow, Christensen and Martineau; Attorneys for Appellee. Roger H. Hoole, Gregory N. Hoole; Hoole and King, L.C.; Attorneys for Intervenors. Recommended Citation Legal Brief, The Fundamentalist Church v. Wisan, No. 20120158 (Utah Court of Appeals, 2012). https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/byu_ca3/3047 This Legal Brief is brought to you for free and open access by BYU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Utah Court of Appeals Briefs by an authorized administrator of BYU Law Digital Commons. Policies regarding these Utah briefs are available at http://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/utah_court_briefs/policies.html. Please contact the Repository Manager at [email protected] with questions or feedback. IN THE SUPREME COURT FOR THE STATE OF UTAH THE FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY INTERVENORS'BRIEF ON SAINTS, an Association of Individuals, CERTIFIED QUESTION FROM THE UNITED STATES Plaintiff/Appellee, COURT OF APPEALS FOR vs. THE TENTH CIRCUIT BRUCE R. -
Latter-Day Screens
Latter- day Screens This page intentionally left blank Latter- day Screens GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND MEDIATED MORMONISM Brenda R. Weber duke university press durham and london 2019 © 2019 DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper ∞ Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker Typeset in Minion Pro and Helvetica Neue by Westchester Publishing Services Library of Congress Control Number: 2019943713 isbn 9781478004264 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn 9781478004868 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 9781478005292 (ebook) Cover art: Big Love (hbo, 2006–11). Publication of this open monograph was the result of Indiana University’s participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), a col- laboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries. TOME aims to expand the reach of long-form humanities and social science scholarship including digital scholarship. Additionally, the program looks to ensure the sustainability of university press monograph publishing by supporting the highest quality scholarship and promoting a new ecology of scholarly publishing in which authors’ institutions bear the publication costs. Funding from Indiana University made it possible to open this publication to the world. This work was partially funded by the Office of the Vice Provost of Research and the IU Libraries. For Michael and Stacey, my North Stars This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowl edgments ix Past as Prologue. Latter- day Screens and History 1 Introduction. “Well, We Are a Curiosity, Ain’t We?”: Mediated Mormonism 13 1. Mormonism as Meme and Analytic: Spiritual Neoliberalism, Image Management, and Transmediated Salvation 49 2. -
Fundamentalist Attitudes Toward the Church: the Sermons of Leroy S- Johnson
Fundamentalist Attitudes toward the Church: The Sermons of Leroy S- Johnson Ken Driggs AT THE AGE OF NINETY-EIGHT, Leroy Sunderland Johnson died in Hildale, Utah, on 25 November 1986. Johnson presided over one of the oldest and largest fundamentalist Mormon groups, organizers of the United Effort Trust in Colorado City, Arizona, formerly known as Short Creek. Accepted as a prophet by his group of fundamentalist Mormons, Johnson's thirty-two years as senior member of the Council of the Priesthood was a time of stability, growth, financial success, and greater public acceptance. An obituary in the January 1987 Sunstone magazine called him "a dominant figure in post-manifesto polygamy for over half a century." A number of fundamentalist groups have broken with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over plural marriage and related issues. While the various groups most often sympathize with each other, their philosophies and leaders differ distinctly. Johnson's group has never adopted a name, identifying themselves as the fundamentalist arm of the Church. They emphatically reject the violence that has some- times brought other groups into the public eye and shaped impressions KEN DRIGGS has previously published in Dialogue, The Journal of Church and State, The Georgia Historical Quarterly, and Utah Historical Quarterly. He has recently fin' ished a Master of Laws Degree (LLM) at the University of Wisconsin. 40 DIALOGUE: A JOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT of Mormon fundamentalism. Like most fundamentalists, Johnson's group tends to be reclusive, adopting styles and customs distinctly out of fashion. They model their religious organization after the nineteenth- century united order. -
Journal of Mormon History Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 2012
Journal of Mormon History Volume 38 Issue 2 Article 1 2012 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 2012 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation Journal of Mormon history. Vol 38, Winter 2012: Iss. 2. This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Mormon History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Journal of Mormon History Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 2012 Table of Contents CONTENTS LETTERS --Augusta Adams Cobb Young: Priesthood Holder Connell O’Donovan, vii PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS --“Not as a Stranger”: A Presbyterian Afoot in the Mormon Past William P. MacKinnon, 1 TANNER LECTURE --Mormon Stories: A Librarian’s Perspective George A. Miles, 47 ARTICLES --From Doctor to Disciple: Willard Richards’s Journey to Mormonism Devery S. Anderson, 67 --New Ways In: Writing Interdisciplinary Mormon History Introduction Rachel Cope, 99 --Shifting the Plot: Possibilities in Mormon Women’s History Rachel Cope, 100 --History through Liturgy: What Worship Remembers Matthew Bowman, 108 --A Shared Historicist Enterprise: Mormon History through a Literary Lens Amy Easton-Flake, 114 --Mormon History and “Lived Religion” Ryan G. Tobler, 119 --“Where Nothing Is Long Ago”: Childhood and Youth in Mormon History Rebecca de Schweinitz, 125 --Religion in a Recipe Kate Holbrook, 139 Conclusion Rachel Cope, 143 --Eleven Witnesses Behold the Plates Gale Yancey Anderson, 145 --Joseph Smith’s Personal Polygamy Brian C. Hales, 163 REVIEWS --Mark T. -
Plural Wife: the Life Story of Mabel Finlayson Allred (Vol
Review ======= Title: Plural Wife: The Life Story of Mabel Finlayson Allred (Vol. 13 in Utah State University Press Life Writings of Frontier Women series) Editor: Martha Bradley-Evans Publisher: Utah State University Press (Logan, Utah) Genre: Mormon Fundamentalism; Contemporary Mormon Polygamy; LDS Women’s Autobiography Year Published: 2012 Number of Pages: 193 Binding: Hardback ISBN: 978-0-87421-874-9 Price: $34.95 Reviewed by Kris Wray for The Association for Mormon Letters ©2012 She [Mabel], one of the Twins, the second to marry Rulon, got her testimony of [the] Principle by reading Section 132 of D&C, and Book of Mormon 28 Chapter 2nd Nephi.1 Mabel Allred thanked the Lord for blessings of past year and the opportunity to meet once again with the Saints. Praised her husband Rulon for his faith and love of the work of the Lord in pulling himself out of a sickness nigh unto death. Miracles do exist in our day and age.2 ith the publication of Plural Wife, USU has expanded their perspective of what it W means to be a "frontier" woman, and with good reason. Mabel Finlayson Allred, one of several wives married to "Fundamentalist" Mormon leader Rulon Allred, experienced a life of challenges reminiscent to pioneer women of an earlier period, while living amongst Twentieth-century members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [LDS]. Ostracized by the LDS leadership, and most members of the "Mother Church" based in Salt Lake City, Utah, she and her fellow sister wives struggled to find peace and happiness adhering to what they believed was the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, restored by Joseph Smith. -
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Profile
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) By James K. Walker Founder: John Y. Barlow and Joseph White Musser Place: Short Creek, Arizona (now renamed Colorado City) and Hildale, Utah Date: 1935 Publications: Truth magazine (1924-1956), and transcribed sermons of Rulon Jeffs, Scriptures include the Bible and the Book of Mormon Unique Terms: United Effort Plan (all real estate owned by the church), The Law of Placing (all marriages are assigned by the Prophet), The Principle (the doctrine and practice of polygamy), Blood Atonement (for certain sins one’s own blood must be shed unto death for forgiveness), Bleeding the Beast (supporting polygamy by draining state resources through welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid) Poofer (a teenage girl who suddenly disappears from her home to become a polygamous wife), Lost Boys (young men ousted by elderly leaders allegedly to reduce competition for young wives). HISTORY The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is one of over one hundred different churches and organizations that trace their beginnings to Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830.1 By far the largest of these organizations is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), commonly called the Mormon Church. The FLDS is one of numerous splinter groups that broke away over the controversial doctrine of “plural wives” or polygamy. In the early years of his movement, the Prophet Joseph Smith introduced the controversial practice of Mormon men receiving multiple wives.2 The practice was later adopted as a doctrine of the Church. -
A History of the Mormon Fundamentalists at Short Creek Author(S): KEN DRIGGS Source: Journal of Church and State, Vol
"This Will Someday Be the Head and Not the Tail of the Church": A History of the Mormon Fundamentalists at Short Creek Author(s): KEN DRIGGS Source: Journal of Church and State, Vol. 43, No. 1 (WINTER 2001), pp. 49-80 Published by: Oxford University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23920013 Accessed: 08-05-2017 19:53 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Oxford University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Church and State This content downloaded from 104.219.97.8 on Mon, 08 May 2017 19:53:49 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms "This Will Someday Be the Head and Not the Tail of the Church": A History of the Mormon Fundamentalists at Short Creek KEN DRIGGS In a 1974 sermon, Leroy S. Johnson, whom many Fundamentalist Mormons revered as a modern day prophet, recounted a story he heard as a young man. The great Mormon prophet-colonizer Brigham Young was returning in a buggy from Pipe Springs, a pioneer outpost in ex treme southern Utah on what is now the Arizona border. -
Change Comes to Short Creek the Modern West Encroaches on a Fundamentalist Mormon Empire by Sarah Scoles May 1, 2017 | $5 | Vol
GORSUCH AND THE WEST | SPLITTING THE 9TH CIRCUIT | THE BEAUTY OF DARKNESS High Country ForN people whoews care about the West Change Comes to Short Creek The modern West encroaches on a fundamentalist Mormon empire By Sarah Scoles May 1, 2017 | $5 | Vol. 49 No. 7 | www.hcn.org 49 No. | $5 Vol. 2017 1, May CONTENTS Editor’s note Exploitation and the West High Country News is some- times called an “environmental” magazine, even by folks within our walls. As the editor, though, I humbly disagree. HCN is a magazine of the American West, helping the region tell its own story, of its people and places, through several important lenses. One of those lenses is the West’s fragile, beautiful environment. Another is closely related: its natural resources, from coal, oil and gas, to timber, ranching and recreation. But a third is through the region’s communities — communities shaped by history and heritage, for better or worse. In this issue, we explore one such community — the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints. The FLDS, dwindling in membership and with several of its leaders in jail or on the lam, consti- tutes a small corner of the modern West, but it rep- resents an important aspect of the past. The sect is famous for its polygamy, an aspect of Utah life that A girl — who sticks out her tongue when she spots a photographer — rides with others wearing traditional is so important that the Salt Lake Tribune has a re- FLDS prairie dresses in Hildale, Utah. GEOrgE FREY porter essentially dedicated to covering it. -
July 25-28 Sandy, Utah Mountain America Expo Center
JULY 25-28 SANDY, UTAH MOUNTAIN AMERICA EXPO CENTER INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS GUIDE TO NUMBERING: WEDNESDAY = 000s, THURSDAY = 100s, FRIDAY = 200s, SATURDAY = 300s ADAMS, STIRLING 354 ENGLISH, SARAH JOHNSON LAKE, SPENCER 221, 314 PETERSON, DOVIE ONCIE ALEXANDER, THOMAS G. 176, 316, 357 LARSEN, JAMES 172, 236 EAGAR 343 171 FARR, AMANDA 276 LARSEN, JOHN 364 PETERSON, GRETHE BALLIF ALLRED, JANICE 361 FIRMAGE, EDWIN B. 314 LARSEN, STEPHENIE 326 356 ALLRED, JOSH 174, 226 FIRMAGE, SARAH E. 314 LAW, ROBBIE 153, 175 PETERSON, MARK 165, 232 ANDERSON, DEVERY 171, 374 FORD, GARY 161 LEAVITT, PETER 234 PETTINGILL, KHADEN 123 ANDERSON, LAVINA FIELDING FREDERICKSON, RON 124 LEIFSON-JENSEN, NICOLE 358 PIERCE, LORI LEVAR 275 171 FROST, JAKE 292, 342 LIND, MINDY STRATFORD 292 POND, ALLISON 333 APPLEGATE, KEILANI 214 FULLER, BERT 268, 342 LINES, KENNETH (MITHRYN) POOL, JERILYN HASSELL 142, BAKER, JACOB 334 FURR, KELLY 232 164 236, 332, 343, 367 BARLOW, PHIL 377 GALVEZ, SAMY 315 LINKHART, ROBIN 091 POPPLETON, LANDON 166 BARNARD, CHELSI 164, 224, GEISNER, JOSEPH 278, 351 LISMAN, STEPHANIE SHUR- PORTER, PERRY 262 336 GLASSCOCK, RANDY 236 TLIFF 162, 277 POTTER, KELLI D. 233 BARRUS, CLAIR 278, 311 GLENN, TYLER 214 LIVESEY, JARED 272 PRINCE, GREGORY 291 BENNETT, APRIL YOUNG 275 GREENWELL, ROBERT A. 222 LONG, MATT 366 PULIDO, MARTIN 122 BENNETT, RICK 271, 377 GRIFFITH, JAY 356 LUKE, JEANNINE 321 QUINN, D. MICHAEL 351 BENNETT, TOM 133, 151 GUDMUNDSON, TAY 175 MACKAY, LACHLAN 223, 371 REEL, BILL 331, 352 BERGERA, GARY JAMES 171 HALES, BRIAN 353 MANDELIN, NATALIE SPERRY REES, BOB 124, 163, 211, 238, BERGIN, SUE 167, 267, 273 HAMER, JOHN 322 214, 362, 378 264, 301, 356, 377 BLACKHAWK, NED 091 HAMILTON, ANDREW 353 MANGELSON, BRITTANY 223 REEVE, W. -
How Young Is Too Young When a Polygamist Cult Leader
How Young is Too Young When a Polygamist Cult Leader Intends to Marry You Off to Your First-Cousin?: The ongoing case against Warren Steed Jeffs. By: Brian Daniel Whelan1 Since 2002, Warren Steed Jeffs has been the leader and “prophet” of a polygamous Mormon sect known as the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (“FLDS”).2 On June 9, 2005, a Mohave County Grand Jury returned a two-count indictment against Jeffs charging him with two counts of 1 Associate New Developments Editor, Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion; J.D. Candidate December 2007, Rutgers-Camden School of Law; B.A. 2005, University of California at Berkeley. 2 This group separated itself from mainstream Mormonism in 1890 when Utah denounced polygamy. FLDS freely practices polygamy in the towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, which straddle the state line. The sect also maintains groups of followers in Texas, South Dakota, Nevada, British Columbia and Mexico. Associated Press, CNN News, Sect Leader Indicted on Sexual Conduct With Minor, Incest Charges (July 12, 2007) available at http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/12/polygamy.charges/index.htm l (last visited Oct. 24, 2007). sexual conduct with a minor and one count of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor.3 On June 10, 2005, an arrest warrant was issued by the Arizona Superior Court. Consequently, Jeffs fled to avoid prosecution, causing a federal arrest warrant to be issued thereafter on June 27, 2005. Jeffs was eventually captured on August 28, 2006, during a routine traffic stop near Las Vegas, Nevada. Jeffs was then extradited to Utah where he was made to stand trial.