137 children rescued from Polygamist ranch. Guess the State? No, not Utah

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Aeson

The term was coined to refer to the LDS sect.

That's simply not true. The name Mormon means followers of the book of Mormon.

I'm happy that the main stream LDS has decided to cast off their cult origins where the cult leaders got to take all the young girls as "wives" and I dislike the FLDS since they continue the cult practices but that doesn't mean both sets of Mormons aren't Mormons. Calling the FLDS a Mormon sect is factually correct and far more accurate then the proposed alternatives.

[SlowwHand]

Key word here being "cult".

[asleepathewheel]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/18/polygamy.fri/index.html

a few days old, I know, but not posted here

Texas Rangers are seeking Rozita Swinton of Colorado Springs, Colorado, "regarding telephone calls placed to a crisis center hot line in San Angelo, Texas, in late March 2008," the Rangers said in a written statement.

The raid of the YFZ (Yearning for Zion) Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, came after a caller -- who identified herself as a 16-year-old girl -- said she had been physically and sexually abused by an adult man with whom she was forced into a "spiritual marriage."

The release said a search of Swinton's home in Colorado uncovered evidence that possibly links her to phone calls made about the ranch, run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

"The possibility exists that Rozita Swinton, who has nothing to do with the FLDS church, may have been a woman who made calls and pretended she was the 16-year-old girl named Sarah," CNN's Gary Tuchman reported.