1.他的话是绝对正确、不容置疑的,完全垄断教义的解释权。这一点在奥运会搬迁事件中体现得淋漓尽致:声称奥运会的召开预示着毁灭,带领所有信众从salt lake city搬迁到short creek,Utah。结果最后一切如常,Warren的解释是:这是主的考验,主大发慈悲给了人类多一点时间。如此重大的事情都能一语带过,可以想象Warren平时...
“This indictment is not about religion,” said U.S. Attorney John Huber in Salt Lake. “This indictment is about fraud.” Lyle Jeffs pleaded not guilty to the charges on Wednesday. His attorneys had no comment as they left the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City. A detention hearing ...
Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, enrolling with 200 other FLDS children in Alta Academy located in the Rulon Jeffs compound at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon where Warren Jeffs, who had never gone to college, was headmaster of the...
an FLDS school outside Salt Lake City, Utah, for 22 years until members were told to gather at the center communities of Colorado City, AZ/Hildale, UT in 1998. The area is historically known as Short Creek.
underage marriages. Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the mainstream church abandoned the practice in 1890 and now strictly prohibits it. Bateman leads a small offshoot of the polygamous sect, according to the S...
The article presents a speech by Mark Shurtleff, Attorney General of Utah, delivered at the Non-State Governance Symposium, held at the S. J. Quinney College of Law at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, February 6, 2009, in which he discussed the relationship between religion and non-...