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Article: FLDS church, leaders sued by 6 'lost boys'
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2004
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ST. GEORGE -- Six of polygamy's "lost boys" filed a lawsuit in 3rd
District Court in Salt Lake City Friday, saying their former church
and its leaders should pay up for ruining their lives by
excommunicating them.
The civil suit names the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, its president Warren Jeffs, Sam Barlow, the United
Effort Plan Trust and three John Does as defendants.
FLDS attorney Rod Parker said the lawsuit violates one of the most
basic principles of separation of church and state.
"A church's membership decisions are simply outside the scope of
judiciary powers to intervene," Parker said, adding a church defines
itself by who is and who is not a member.
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