Racism of Raided FLDS Cult Ignored
Three days after the raid of a polygamist compound in Eldorado, Texas, the media is still about the arrest and search warrants served at the YFZ (Yearning For Zion) ranch, which was occupied by 400 followers of Warren Jeffs (right), the 鈥減rophet鈥� of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints.
But so far none of the dozens of stories and broadcast segments about Texas authorities taking 219 children and women from the YFZ compound into protective custody have even mentioned the fact that along with advocating child brides and plural marriage, FLDS doctrine is venomous with anti-black racism.
As described in a on the FLDS published in the Spring 2005 issue of the Intelligence Report, Jeffs preaches to his estimated 10,000 followers that all blacks are the descendants of Cain, 鈥渃ursed with a black skin,鈥� and selected by God to be the 鈥渟ervants of servants." It was on the basis of that unvarnished racism, preached as official FLDS doctrine, that the Southern Poverty Law Center began listing FLDS as a hate group in 2005.
Jeffs describes as a victory for the devil the day in 1978 that leaders of the legitimate Church of Latter Day Saints 鈥� known to much of the world as the Mormon Church 鈥攄ecided to allow blacks to become priests. FLDS had first split from the main church in 1890 after Mormon officials renounced polygamy under pressure from the government.
鈥淭he black race is the people through which the devil has always been able to bring evil unto the earth,鈥� Jeffs preached in one recorded sermon obtained by Hatewatch.
"And why did [the Negro race] pass through the flood?鈥� the FLDS prophet asked. 鈥滲ecause it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God."
To download an MP3 file of Jeffs sermonizing on 鈥淣egroes鈥� and the biblical story of the flood, click .
To read more of his comments on blacks, as well as on homosexuality, violence, the role of women and the end of the world, click .
