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Polygamist Leader Warren Jeffs Extradited to Texas
By Hugh Collins - AOL News
(Dec. 1) -- Warren Jeffs, the leader of a polygamist sect, appeared in court in Texas today on charges of bigamy and sexual assault, ending the legal battle over extraditing him from Utah. Jeffs, 54, appeared for a 15-minute arraignment in a Tom Green County District Court this morning. He was shown a copy of the indictment against him and was asked if he would like the court to appoint an attorney for him. "I need more time," Jeffs said, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Jeffs faces charges that he married a child under the age of 16 in 2006 while still married to another woman, and ...
Is Glenn Beck Attempting to Fulfill the Mormon 'White Horse Prophecy'?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 5) -- Is a prophecy known to few outside of the Mormon faith motivating Glenn Beck's crusade against President Barack Obama's administration? That's Washington reporter Dana Milbank's conclusion. In an article published Tuesday at The Huffington Post, Milbank details the history of Joseph Smith's so-called "White Horse Prophecy." Though two of Smith's followers are said to have heard him deliver the prophecy in 1843, it was not actually written down until the 1850s, when the men were elderly and Smith had passed away. In 1855, Smith's successor, Brigham Young, distilled the prophecy ...
After a Dissent, Mormon Leaders Reaffirm Stance Against Gay Marriage
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- Last month, a senior leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologized for the Mormon church's involvement in California's campaign in favor of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that outlaws gay marriage. "On the morning of Sunday, September 19, about ninety members of the Oakland, California stake (diocese) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints met with Elder Marlin K. Jensen, the Church's historian and a prominent member of the General Authorities, the ranking hierarchy of Mormon leaders," reports Joanna Brooks of Religion Dispatches magazine. ...
What Is Harry Reid's Religion?
By Alex Mouravskiy - Politics DailyHarry Reid, the four-term senior senator from Nevada, is running for re-election against Tea Party-backed Republican candidate and former Nevada Assemblywoman Sharron Angle. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in 2010, here are some answers to frequently asked questions about his life. What is Harry Reid's religion? Reid is a Mormon. Was Harry Reid born a Mormon, or did he convert? Reid grew up largely without religion. The town of Searchlight, where Reid was born and spent his life before high school, did not have a church. Reid traveled ...
Evangelist Bill Keller: Glenn Beck and Gandhi 'Going to Hell'
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Sept. 5) -- During the the inaugural worship service of a proposed "9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero" on Sunday, evangelist minister Bill Keller slammed Islam and Mormonism as "lies from Satan." At the same time, Keller maintained that his project was not in opposition to the proposed construction of an Islamic community center two blocks away. "It's not an anti-mosque," Keller said of his proposed center, which would be the first physical church constructed by his online ministry, LivePrayer.com. "For lack of better terminology, it's an old-time Evangelistic center where we're ...
Beck vs. Obama: Whose Version of Christianity Is More Mainstream?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 2) -- God is on whose side? Today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs responded to criticism made by television talk show host Glenn Beck, who alleges that President Barack Obama believes in tenets of liberation theology, a social justice movement started in Latin America's Catholic churches in the 1960s in response to the plight of the poor. "The president is a committed mainstream Christian," Gibbs said at Thursday's press gaggle, adding that he wasn't sure whether Obama actually did admire the movement, nor where Beck had learned of the alleged connection. Gibbs' ...
Shooting Leaves Mormon Official, Suspect Dead
By not in system - AOL NewsVISALIA, Calif. (Aug. 30) -- Police are searching for motives behind the actions of a gunman accused of fatally shooting a Mormon church official before dying in a shootout with police. Clay Sannar, 42, a lay bishop with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was doing administrative paperwork on Sunday between church services when a man came into the Visalia church and asked for a leader of the church, said church official Ralph Jordan. After being directed to Sannar, the attacker shot and killed him, said Visalia police chief Colleen Mestas. Visalia is southeast of Fresno, in ...
Polygamist Leader May Face Tougher Case in Texas
By Sanjiv Bhattacharya - AOL News(Aug. 12) -- Utah will have to wait in line before it gets a chance to retry polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. First he's going to a state where prosecution has been more vigorous. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said he believes the case against Jeffs is stronger in Texas, where he will be extradited. Jeffs, 54, is the head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a Utah-based group that practices polygamy according to the Mormon tradition (the LDS Church disavowed the practice a century ago). Numerous reports allege that the group has arranged marriages ...
Warren Jeffs to Get New Trial
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 27) -- Polygamist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs will have yet another day in court. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah's Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Judge James Shumate improperly instructed the jury that convicted Jeffs in 2007 of being an accomplice to two counts of first-degree felony rape. In 2001, Jeffs helped marry Allen G. Steed to a 14-year-old girl, Elissa Wall. At the trial, Wall testified that she objected to the marriage and to sex with Steed. Jeffs' lawyers had argued that the judge should instruct the jury that Steed, not Jeffs, was responsible for any ...
Utah Court Reverses Convictions of Polygamist Leader
By not in system - AOL NewsSALT LAKE CITY (July 27) -- The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the convictions of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and ordered a new trial. Jeffs, 54, was convicted by a southern Utah jury in 2007 of two counts of first-degree felony rape as an accomplice for his role in the 2001 nuptials of Elissa Wall, then 14, to her 19-year-old cousin, Allen Steed. Jeffs is serving two consecutive terms of five years to life in the Utah State Prison on the convictions, but the high court ruled Tuesday that jury instructions on lack of consent were in error. Jeffs is head of the Fundamentalist ...
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