FLDS makes concessions regarding plural marriage rules - Salt Lake Tribune

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For nearly 10 years, the FLDS withstood authorities pressure level and refused to do any public grant on its matrimony practices. That changed Monday when the polygamous religious sect released a four-paragraph statement vowing to stay by matrimony age laws in all states. Spokesman Willie Jessop read the declaration, saying it had been issued by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter Day Saints. Asked who authorized it, Jessop said, "Joseph Smith." He also said he was unaware if FLDS leader Robert Penn Warren S. Jeffs had any manus in crafting the statement. Here is the statement:
* The church's policies regarding matrimony have got been widely misrepresented and misunderstood. Indeed, much of the misinformation circulating on this topic looks designed intentionally to fuel the fires of bias against the church. * The church's patterns in this respect go on a long tradition of matrimony in this state that would have got got been establish to have been everyday in 19th century America. In the FLDS Christian church all matrimonies are consensual. The Christian church take a firm stands on appropriate consent, including that of the adult female and the adult male in all circumstances. * Nevertheless the Christian church is clarifying its policy toward marriage. Therefore, in the future, the Christian church perpetrates that it will not preside over the matrimony of any adult female under the age of legal consent in the legal power in which the matrimony takes place. The Christian church will advocate households Advertisement

that they neither petition nor consent to any underage marriages. This policy will use church-wide. * The Christian church believes in purity, cleanliness, and innocence. Our children and households are the bases of our lives and our religion. We trust that this modest elucidation in policy will relieve recent concerns and let the Christian church and its households to dwell in peace among our neighbors.