We do need to be careful not to paint all Mormons with the same brush however. Even if all of them are messed up theologically, there are a number of vastly different Mormon denominations. I have studied the different Mormon Churches for years.

Warren Jeffs is the ‘prophet’ of the FLDS group and was pursued by the FBI for over a year before they caught up with him and put him in jail. It is the subsequent court case which has started to unravel all the secrets about this remote cult.

No action taken against the FLDS Church will offend the regular Mormons. They consider them apostates and cultists also. I have several Mormon acquaintances who are just as horrified about that group as we are.

The FLDS have maintained and have continued in their illegal polygamous lifestyle by living in small communities and counties in which they control all the land, the businesses, the schools, the churches, and hold all the political, legal, and civic offices including Mayor, Sheriff, Chief of police, county supervisors, all city and county attorneys, all local Judges, and even local National Guard armories.

The states and/or Federal government would have to intervene to stop polygamy in these communities but no one has the guts to start a ‘civil war’ that would probably make David Koresh’s Waco look like a party.

One of the problems with these nutcases is that in order for the law to get involved, their has to be some kind of evidence, and people are keeping their mouths shut. In support of the State of Texas, they moved in on this group of wackos in less than a week after they got the call from the girl asking for help. They took quick and decisive action on this and removed the children from the premises.

The church has been screaming about the Mormon church for decades and it has done us little good. God-fearing people hung Joseph Smith back in the day for his polygamous ways and that did little good.

Our system is set up so that the same freedoms that protect the church from the government, also protects the nutcases. If we want the government to go after the nutcases, then the government will go after us, too.

The answer, of course, is to convert the nutcases. The problem with that is they tend to remain isolated. Every good cult leader knows that the truth will set their followers free, so they make every effort to keep their people as far from the truth as possible.