LDS Church critical of media reports on FLDS
Some news outlets fail to distinguish 2 faiths
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is criticizing international news media outlets for failing to distinguish between the mainstream LDS Church and the Fundamentalist LDS Church.
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discontinued polygamy officially in 1890. More than a century later, some news reports, especially those outside the U.S., still fail to draw clear distinctions whenever stories arise about polygamy in the Intermountain West," the LDS Church said in a statement posted on its Web site.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1...269713,00.html
First look inside YFZ Ranch
First look: Quiet is unnerving as FLDS members seek answers
YFZ RANCH, Texas — The children's shoes still sit neatly, side by side where they last left them. Child-sizedshovels and miniature wheelbarrows sit on the porch of their three-story, log cabin-like home.
The only noise now emanating from this 1,700-acre compound is the rustle of the wind, birds chirping, the occasional scurry of a roadrunner or a truck traveling along the dirt roads. "It's miserable. It's too quiet," says Nancy, struggling to keep her emotional voice loud enough to be heard.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1...270108,00.html
FLDS parents hit with court papers for pending custody battle
Legal notices are being published in the Eldorado hometown paper, addressed to "all unknown parents, and any person claiming to be a parent of, any one or more of the children removed from the YFZ Ranch."
The notices, filed by attorneys for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, announces the petitions for hundreds of children taken from the Fundamentalist LDS Church's Texas ranch. "You have been sued. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the expiration of twenty (20) days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judgment may be taken against you."
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1...270150,00.html
Note: The Desert News is owned and operated by the Main Church.
http://www.deseretnews.com/home/1,5125,,00.html
From the Main Church's web site:
Reports of Polygamy Story Vary Across the World
SALT LAKE CITY 10 April 2008 The public affairs office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today complimented U.S. media outlets for being careful to distinguish between the 13-million-member international Church and a small polygamous sect raided by Texas state officers late last week. However, the Church said that some international news outlets are running misleading reports that confuse the Church with the polygamous group. Some news outlets have even run photographs of the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City alongside the story of the polygamists. Several headline writers have inserted the term “Mormon” into headlines without making distinctions.
http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsr...ross-the-world
To their credit, they do have what seems to be several fair /balance links off of their own site.