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Okay, where is that national media on these people? I am glad this is a reflection and not a book report because I want to speak my mind. What we learn in chapter 1, 2 and 3 are strictly about Church of Latter Day Saints Fundamentalists. So were not talking the Salt Lake City Mormons. Those are the “normal” Mormons. Actually, FLDS (Fundamental Latter Day Saints) consider the LDS (Latter Day Saints) to be worse than non Mormons. They call them Gentiles and believe them to be tainting the religion. But what the chapters outline is what FLDS members believe. Let me elucidate those who don’t know. The primary difference between the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) is the practice of polygamy. Since giving up the practice of plural marriage in 1890, the mainstream LDS church has sought to distance itself from this illegal and generally socially unacceptable practice, while the FLDS church continues to live the polygamous lifestyle to this day. Then, Chapter 3 outlines the Elizabeth Smart abduction. Around 1 a.m. on June 5, 2002, a man with a knife entered the bedroom of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart and her nine-year-old sister Mary Katherine and forced Elizabeth to leave the house and walk into the woods four miles behind her Salt Lake City home to a secluded campsite. Nine months later, Elizabeth Smart was found in nearby Sandy, Utah after spending months at the campsite, traveling to California, and returning to Utah with her captors. Brain David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, were charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual assualt, and aggravated burglary. Who were these captors? Members of the Fundamental Latter Day Saints church In Mitchell's "manifesto", section four, dated Feb. 17, 2002: He wrote, "And thou shalt take into thy heart and home seven times seven sisters, to love and care for;...and thou art the jubilee of them all, first and last, for all are given unto them, for thou art a Queen, Oh Hephzibah! This was later interpreted to mean that Barzee, who he refers to as Hephzibah, is to accept and care for Mitchell's 49 additional wives but that she will remain his lead wife. Maybe I kind of forgot to add something to this report. The premise, is that there was a murder in 1984, where a woman and her infant daughter were brutally killed at the hands of Mormons who believed that it was the will of god….Oh yeah religion is great!!!!