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Friday Feb 10 | ABC 4

Jeffs' ex-bodyguard claims FLDS leader retaliation

A former bodyguard and spokesman for polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit, claiming church leaders ruined his business after he had a falling-out with Jeffs.

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Related Topix: Religion, Cedar City, UT, Hildale, UT

Friday Feb 10 | AsianWeek

Demons and Saints: The Murder of Josh and Susan Powell's Family

Asianweek is supposed to be about Asian American stories, not about Mormon Dads from Hell.

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Related Topix: Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), Asian-American, Explosion, Wedding

Friday Feb 10 | The Huffington Post

Emma Lou Thayne: The Mormon Moment

Current talk in the media sometimes calls this "The Mormon Moment." A hit musical on Broadway, "The Book of Mormon," has won multiple Tony awards.

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Related Topix: Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), US Politics, US News, Mitt Romney, Prison

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Globe and Mail

Tax court pulls back curtain shielding life inside polygamous community

For more than 20 years, Winston Blackmore has been a thorn in the side of successive British Columbia governments, practising polygamy in plain sight or at least in the scenic community known as Bountiful even as officials fretted over what to do about him and his followers.

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Related Topix: Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism)

Salt Lake Tribune

Former FLDS spokesman sues Warren Jeffs

The former spokesman for the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs says in a new lawsuit that sect leaders arranged a nighttime burglary that gutted his business after he was excommunicated for refusing to falsify sect records on Jeffs' marriages to underage girls.

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Related Topix: Religion, Eldorado, TX

Daily Kos

Let's hear Santorum defend these religious freedoms.

Frothyboy and the unhinged GOP are trying to find some issue they can use to attack the President, having no real ideas of their own, and this week they've settled on religious freedom.

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Related Topix: Colorado City, AZ, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), US News, Liberal Political News

Wed Feb 08, 2012

Phoenix New Times

AG Tom Horne Wants to Replace Cops in FLDS Haven Colorado City,...

A bill that would replace local police in Colorado City with deputies from the Mohave County Sheriff's Office was unanimously approved by a state Senate committee this morning.

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Related Topix: Religion, Colorado City, AZ, Mohave County, AZ, Phoenix, AZ

Mon Feb 06, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune

Jeffs revelation promises "Celestial love-power"

There were a grand total of 21 revelations, totaling about 54 pages, according to UTAG spokesman Paul Murphy.

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Related Topix: Religion

The Globe and Mail

Sister testifies against Blackmore in Bountiful tax case

Despite testifying against her brother Winston Blackmore in a landmark tax hearing, Marlene Palmer said Monday she isn't angry with him and would speak to him if he would take her calls.

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Related Topix: Religion, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Sun Feb 05, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune

Evictions avoided after polygamous sect leaders make tax payments

Polygamous sect leaders have paid nearly half of past-due property taxes owed on its state-controlled property trust, avoiding possible evictions and tax sales.

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Related Topix: Religion, Washington County, UT, Hildale, UT

Fri Feb 03, 2012

Globe and Mail

Blackmore locked up property records, his sister and ex-bookkeeper testifies

Polygamous community leader Winston Blackmore kept some business records out of sight and inaccessible, his sister and former bookkeeper told a tax hearing Thursday.

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Related Topix: Canada, Religion

Thu Feb 02, 2012

KSL-TV

Unique construction project under way at FLDS ranch

Photos obtained by locals indicate its purpose may be to house a large statue of the church's leader, Warren Jeffs, who is currently serving a life sentence for raping two underage girls.

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Related Topix: Religion, Texas

KTVK Phoenix

Polygamist prophent Warren Jeffs controlling sect from behind bars

Colorado City, Ariz -- It has been six months since polygamous prophet Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in a Texas prison for sexually assaulting underage girls.

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Related Topix: Religion, Hildale, UT

Wed Feb 01, 2012

Calgary Herald

Mormons should share wealth, Bountiful polygamist's tax trial hears

B.C. polygamist Winston Blackmore leaves Federal Court in Vancouver. He's appealing a Canada Revenue Agency audit that concluded he under-reported $1.5 million of income over six years between 2000 and 2006.

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Related Topix: Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), North America, Canada, World News, Hildale, UT

Tue Jan 31, 2012

Canada.com

Winston Blackmore federal tax case hinges on church issue

What is a church? It's the key issue before the Federal Tax Court in the trial to determine whether Winston Blackmore and his family - fundamentalist Mormon polygamists - qualify to be taxed as a group and not as individuals.

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Related Topix: Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), US Politics, US News, Mitt Romney

Daily Kos

What is fair and unfair regarding voters' judging politicians' religious views?

Virtually every fair-minded Americans would agree that no citizen should categorically rule out a candidate for public office simply for being a Catholic, Protestant or Jew.

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Mon Jan 30, 2012

KMID

Trial Of FLDS Member Moved To Midland

The upcoming bigamy trail of an F.L.D.S. member from Tom Green County will now take place in Midland.

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Related Topix: Religion, Tom Green County, TX

KIII

Ex-FLDS leader's bigamy trial moved

The trial of Wendell Loy Nielsen has been moved from San Angelo to Midland by order Monday of state District Judge Barbara Walther.

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Related Topix: Religion

Slate Magazine

Is Polygamy Really So Awful?

These are boom times for memoirs about growing up in , marrying into or escaping from polygamous families.

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Related Topix: Religion, Wedding

Salt Lake Tribune

Polygamous town leaders want prosecutors removed in corruption case

An Arizona judge is weighing whether to remove prosecutors from a public corruption case against a pair of polygamous town officials due to what the defense calls a conflict of interest.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Religion, Hildale, UT

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