Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted: 2:53 PM- ELDORADO, Texas - In just five years, the West Texas polygamist sect transformed 1,700 acres of scrubland
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
ELDORADO, Texas -- In just five years, the West Texas polygamist sect transformed 1,700 acres of scrubland purchased for $700,000 into a bustling ranch with a blazing-white limestone temple, sprawling three-story log cabins, woodworking shops and a dairy.
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
By branding a West Texas polygamist sect an abusive environment, officials may tell its mothers they must choose between their children and their religion.Some lawyers said this edict could mean women would never be able to return to the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, The Dallas Morning News said Thursday.Other experts said adults who have tolerated underage marriages of girls to...
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Yesterday's Salt Lake Tribune says that mental health professionals who were employed to care for the FLDS women and children after the April raid on their Eldorado, Texas ranch are critical of Texas Child Protective Services. Statements given by staff members to the board of Hill Country Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center say that the treatment of the women...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
An elder of the polygamist sect in Texas that was raided last month complained to the White House that the state has perpetrated terrorist acts on the group.The sprawling ranch in Eldorado, Texas, belonging to members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was raided last month by authorities acting on tips alleging physical and sexual abuse. Officials...
Religion News Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The 73-year-old was arrested and indicted in February – less than two months before raids on the Eldorado compound – charged with four counts of promoting bigamy, made a felony in 2005 after the unrelated FLDS group arrived from Utah.
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Yesterday's Ft. Worth Star-Telegram reports on what to expect at the next round of hearings, scheduled to begin May 19, in the cases of 464 children taken into state custody from the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas. In simultaneous hearings in 5 San Angelo courtrooms, children will be grouped by family so that siblings will have hearings together. The hearings are likely to continue...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The attorneys general for Utah and Arizona agreed Thursday that Texas was right in its removal of hundreds of FLDS children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, more than a month ago.
Catholic Pillow Fight (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
There has been a lot of discussion about the FLDS polygamist group in Texas . From the date of the article on the link, it looks like this group moved to Texas in July of 2004. ELDORADO, Texas — Folks around here couldn't be more dumbfounded if a flying saucer buzzed the county courthouse and spooked all the sheep this side of Abilene. Polygamists? A colony of secretive...
Religion News Blog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Fierce winds of change — from national political attitudes about polygamy to new economic stress and even down to the personal decisions about where to live in a post-Eldorado world — are buffeting the polygamist faithful.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
A police crackdown on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, is fueling gossip and fear in the Utah-Arizona border towns that are the home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- I was elected mayor of San Angelo, a nice West Texas town of 90,000, in 2003, the same year a bunch of polygamists bought a ranch in Eldorado, about 45 miles south of here on Route 277. read more
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The handling of the raid of the Yearning for Zion Ranch polygamous compound in Eldorado, Texas, and the subsequent detainment of the entire community continues to draw strong reactions here in Utah. Connor Boyack, a website designer in Lehi, Utah circulated a petition calling for the release from custody or foster care of all Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
SAN ANGELO, Texas - A judge has ordered the Texas attorney general's office to prosecute any future criminal cases connected to last month's raid on a polygamous sect's Eldorado ranch.
OTB News (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
In the secretive, illegal world of American polygamy, life has been good to 67-year-old Wendell Loy Nielsen of Eldorado, Texas. Share This
