What do you think of the Polygamist Wives at the Texas Mormon Cult Ranch?
The LDS (Mormon) Church has no affiliation the the Polygamist FLDS sect in El Dorado, TX. The FLDS broke from the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1930s. The FLDS Church and the LDS Church are distinct and separate religious denominations, having no official ties or connections. I have not even heard the News ever call them Mormon, at least not here in the Houston, Texas area. I’ve been listening very closely. On that note, I have no idea what went on at the Polygamist Compound, but my heart goes out the mothers and children who have been separated from each other solely on allegations.
The LDS church has no affiliation to the FLDS church. They are a separate religion. They don’t even claim to be Mormon. The LDS church doesn’t recognize them as part of the church, and neither does the FLDS. They left the church after polygamy stopped in the late 1800’s, and were excommunicated because they refused to stop practicing it. They chose to cut themselves off from the rest of the world, and are doing things I don’t agree with. That being said, that life is all those women know. I’m sure they think that the state was wrong, but what people don’t understand is that authorities have been watching the compound for years. They have been concerned that things were happening that shouldn’t be, but they couldn’t go in until there was a reason. The phone call made by the girl was the reason they needed. That doesn’t make what the authorities did right, but there was really no other way to do it. Those women, if abuse has happened, are considered accomplices in that abuse, since they
