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I don't deny that FLDS need welfare, but that they have created their circumstances as they break the laws of the land and God's laws.
The 12th Article of Faith Says
12 We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
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Yet when you go to the Utah state capitol you will see a statue to a man who knew the law quite well and yet interpreted the law itself as being immoral and chose to not follow it -- and urged members not to follow it in regards to polygamy (that of course was Brigham Young).
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President Hinckley said any members that practiced polygamy would be excommunicated for doing so. So Fiannan, your claim that these polygamists are keeping a commandment is nonsense and the fact that they are bringing lots of spirits into the world isn't anymore valiant than people who have many children while shacking up. God doesn't command people to commit adultery. A prophet said that the practice of polygamy was to end. The apostate groups who chose to stray from the church over this revelation shouldn't be praised for it. There was a season for polygamy and that season is over.
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The pope has also said that...oh wait, LDS people do not recognize the authority of the pope...so I suppose that we can't bring any statements he makes up as anything but good advice -- or not. That's the way that people in polygamist groups for the most part view what they call the "Salt Lake church". So if we say that they are breaking a commandment of God, and that they are merely committing adultery, then we are using the same play book as the people who attacked the LDS Church back in the 1800s (and perhaps those in the LDS Church who actively persecute these people will have to answer for this inconsistency with history as well as the Article of Faith that says we believe in allowing people to live their religion as they please when judgement day comes).