Texas seizes polygamist group’s secluded ranch

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

ELDORADO, Texas (AP) — State agents have seized a polygamous group’s Texas ranch where hundreds of children were removed during a 2008 FBI raid prompted by child sex abuse allegations.

The group’s leader, Warren Jeffs, is serving life in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting two girls he took as child brides.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says its agents took possession of the secluded property near Eldorado on Thursday. In a statement, DPS says authorities were helping the remaining eight adults living on the ranch leave and to do an inventory.

A judge in January ordered the forfeiture of the Yearning For Zion Ranch, which was owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The state sought to seize the property over allegations of mismanagement by Jeffs.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/04/17/texas_seizes_polygamist_groups_secluded_ranch/

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Shouldn't the wing nut brigade and the flying monkeys be screaming about "Freedom of Religion?"

[kestrel91316]

1. Burn it to the ground and salt the soil.

It is a place of pure evil.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. The Wing-Nutz Will Say That Jeff's Group

The right wing-nutz will say that Warren Jeff's group "aren't really Christians," a tactic they frequently resort to when selecting what topic to choose for their highly selective indignation.

The Right's chosen silence concerning the Fundamentalist Church of JC and LDS ought to be a wake-up call to mainstream LDS'ers, but won't be. The American Religious Right is jam-packed with people who think that the regular LDS church "isn't really Christian," and I don't doubt that it has people in it that would loose the same sorts of pogroms that drove Brigham Young's followers to the Salt Lake Basin.