{"id":832,"date":"2004-05-25T18:39:55","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T00:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=832"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"the-polygamists-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/05\/the-polygamists-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polygamists are Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, I made reference to<\/a> a fine and informative collection of articles in the <i>Salt Lake Tribune<\/i>, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/specials\/polygamy\/\">&#8220;Living the Principle: Polygamy on the Border&#8221;<\/a>. Among the many fascinating tidbits included in those reports were descriptions of tensions and splits among the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints. It appears that the current FLDS leader, Warren Jeffs, has become unpopular and tyrannical, and several polygamist families, led by those whom he&#8217;s excommunicated or simply by folks who want to get away from the man, are relocating. (I found to my surprise that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/2004\/mar\/03142004\/polygamy\/147314.asp\">one divided faction<\/a> has put down roots in a small community just over the Idaho border in British Columbia, which would be about seven miles from our family cabin.) Anyway, my friend Scott in Texas informs me that at least one small West Texas town is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/issues\/2004-05-20\/feature.html\/1\/index.html\">in an uproar<\/a> over the possibility that the FLDS are considering a mass exodus to their backyard. Fortunately, according to the news article, the local townsfolk are ready: &#8220;For one man, frontier justice would serve as a reliable last resort if things got out of hand. &#8216;I&#8217;m just gonna keep my gun loaded. We take care of ourselves here. Always have, always will,&#8217; Mike Calcote said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, I made reference to a fine and informative collection of articles in the Salt Lake Tribune, titled &#8220;Living the Principle: Polygamy on the Border&#8221;. Among the many fascinating tidbits included in those reports were descriptions of tensions and splits among the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints. It appears that the current FLDS leader, Warren Jeffs, has become unpopular and tyrannical, and several polygamist families, led by those whom he&#8217;s excommunicated or simply by folks who want to get away from the man, are relocating. (I found to my surprise that one divided faction has put down roots in a small community just over the Idaho border in British Columbia, which would be about seven miles from our family cabin.) Anyway, my friend Scott in Texas informs me that at least one small West Texas town is in an uproar over the possibility that the FLDS are considering a mass exodus to their backyard. Fortunately, according to the news article, the local townsfolk are ready: &#8220;For one man, frontier justice would serve as a reliable last resort if things got out of hand. &#8216;I&#8217;m just gonna keep my gun loaded. We take care of ourselves here. Always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}