Sunday, April 28, 2013

Banning The Word "Fun" and FLDS

FLDS: Clothes differentiate beween the righteous and the evil | Apologetics Index: "


Jeffs famously banned the word "fun" and the color red from the community.
"First you couldn't wear a solid red dress, then a dress with a red flower on it," Jessop says. "Then, not a pinstripe of red in a tie.
"It's like Warren just stayed at home dreaming up what to ban next," she says. "It was literally that crazy."
- Source: Latter-Day Restraints, New York Post, Apr. 22, 2008

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Jeffs and his brother were wearing cargo shorts and white, short-sleeved cotton T-shirts.
FLDS boys and men are never supposed to wear short-sleeved shirts or shorts. All members of the sect are supposed to have their bodies covered at all times and wear a ”temple garment” - religious underwear - that covers them from neck to wrist to ankle.
Naomi was wearing jeans and a pink T-shirt, a far cry from her usual long-sleeved, ankle-length dresses in pastel ginghams or floral prints.
The fact that the SUV was red has also been a subject of much interest on Internet blogs. Jeffs and previous prophets had banned red. Some said it was the colour of the devil, but Jeffs told his followers that red was off limits because that’s the colour of cloak Jesus will be wearing when he returns to Earth following the apocalypse.
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Jeffs banned books, newspapers, television, radio and DVDs. He ordered all family photos destroyed. Some say he even banned laughing for a while.
His followers will likely not see or hear reports of their prophet being described as ”meek,” ”timid” and ”pale.” They probably won’t hear that when he was arrested, he had at least $54,000 in cash, 15 cellphones, four portable radios, four laptop computers, three wigs, a collection of sunglasses, a police scanner, a GPS device and a duffel bag believed to be stuffed with even more cash.
- Source: Warren Jeffs followers thought he’d never be caught, Daphne Bramham, AP/CanWest News Service, via the National Post, Sep. 1, 2006



“At home, you couldn’t have any toys. You couldn’t ride bikes, either,” Nelli Steed, 6, whose mother was banished from the church, told ABC News.
Among his commands was a requirement that 15 men father all the children in the community, according to former members.



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