Mormons bury kitten alive in concrete...

[SuperDeadite]

WTF?

 

[aria]

Pretty sure you're looking for the word "extremist", "fringe" or "lunatic" when you're talking about this and Mormonism. I'm not going to say LDS because I can't imagine anyone in LDS supporting that. Or even Temple Lot


EDIT: How are they certain the cat didn't just fall in while it was wet?

 

[Kid Panda]

Im sorry, but this is straight nasty and sad :/

 

[lithy]

EDIT: How are they certain the cat didn't just fall in while it was wet?

My thoughts as well...where does the Mormon part of this thread title even come from?

 

[SonGohan]

This makes me sick.

 

[LWK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PXaJxzuDE

 

[SML]

I can't stand Romney but the cynical Mormon-phobia going around is pretty sad, especially as many of its promoters probably consider themselves extremely tolerant.

PS. This post does not apply to Mormon Jesus.

 

[SuperDeadite]

Reported in the Huffington Post originally:

A live cat was found recently half-buried in concrete, and the man who rescued the kitten believes it was a message from a pro-polygamy religious group.

The incident happened recently in Colorado City, Ariz., a major center for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Mormon sect that split off in the early 20th century in order to continue the controversial practice of plural marriage.

The kitten was discovered at the home of Isaac Wyler, a former church member, who has spoken out against the church and its controversial former leader Warren Jeffs, according to AzFamily.com.

Jeffs, who was found guilty last year of sexually assaulting two underage girls he had wed, is currently in protective custody in a prison in Palestine, Texas, serving a life term plus 20 years.

Andrew Chatwin, who, like Wyler, is a former member of the FDLS, found the cat inside one of a metal tube used to construct cement posts, according to RightThisMinute.com.

In order to rescue the cat, Chatwin had to cut the post and dig out the footing. He took the feline to an animal sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, where it died a few days later.

Chatwin, who left the FLDS 13 years ago, believes the cruel act was done by members of his former church. He claims both the threats and the animal killings have been going on for years.

Chatwin also claims that when he reported the cruel act to Colorado City sheriffs, they didn't seem too concerned.

"[The officer] kind of chuckled and laughed a little bit and then he said that if it was up to him, he'd just throw dirt on [the cat]," Chatwin said. "And this is coming from a city marshal who's a member of the FLDS Church."

Neither the FLDS or the Colorado City Sheriffs Dept. returned phone calls from The Huffington Post.

The U.S. Justice Department recently filed a lawsuit against government officials in Colorado City, and the neighboring border town of Hildale, Utah, for alleged civil rights violations, including acting as de-facto agents for the church, denying ex-members and non-members of the FLDS Church access to everything from police services to housing and utilities, according to KSTU-TV.

At the time the lawsuit was filed, Chatwin told the station that the Colorado City government was "a theocracy."

"They keep starving people right out of the community," he said. "To where they can't get employment, they can't get decent service. I can't even use the Hildale clinic that (is) here. I have to travel a half-hour, 45 minutes just to get a doctor's visit."

 

[evil wasabi]

Arizona dudes bury kitten alive in concrete.

makes more sense.

 

[BizMarkie82]

Pretty sure you're looking for the word "extremist", "fringe" or "lunatic" when you're talking about this and Mormonism. I'm not going to say LDS because I can't imagine anyone in LDS supporting that. Or even Temple Lot


EDIT: How are they certain the cat didn't just fall in while it was wet?

Edit: Someone beat me to the article by 120 seconds.

 

[Arcademan]

Arizona dudes bury kitten alive in concrete.

makes more sense.

FLDS are crazies up there in Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. This past week, the state got rid of the police department up there and brought in county deputies to enforce the law since all police members belonged to the FLDS.

 

[Decepticon]

They were only killing it so they can baptize it later.

 

[Hot Chocolate]

I can't stand Romney but the cynical Mormon-phobia going around is pretty sad, especially as many of its promoters probably consider themselves extremely tolerant.

PS. This post does not apply to Mormon Jesus.

I dated a morman back in high school, she had the nicest ass........I wonder sometimes how she is

 

[Jedah Doma]

I'm not a cat lover, but that was plain fucked up. Poor thing.

 

[NeoSneth]

i hope that cat makes it. Anyone read the results?

 

[Marek]

i hope that cat makes it. Anyone read the results?

I read that the cat died a couple days later.

Cant recall the source.

 

[Sixth]

Whether or not that cat lives is entirely dependent upon how long it was in that pipe before he found it. It did seem pretty spry though, so hopefully it wasn’t too long.

Anyway, just goes to show you that people are awful. Hell, one of the most important lessons I learned as a child is that all people are horrible under the right conditions; for some people, that condition is just breathing.

 

[SNKorSWM]

If this is a ceremony, the "believers" won't even bother questioning the morality of the act, since they would be demonstrating a lack of faith.

 

[Average Joe]

i would cripple the people involved in this for life had i the chance

 

[Fox1]

 

[Ajax]

Fuck, that breaks my heart...

For the record, there's a pretty big difference between mainstream Mormons and FLDS adherents, which is what this story involves. This thread title is considerably off. As has more or less been stated, the title of this thread just makes you look ignorant.

 

[ki_atsushi]

That was very hard to watch, seeing that poor cat scream in agony.

People that hurt or torture animals should be put down... they're murderers in the making.

 

[norton9478]

Perhaps Polygamist would be a better word to use.

 

[SML]

Nobody knows who did this. A former member of a sect says he suspects the sect.

 

[abasuto]

Everytime you masturbate a mormon buries a kitten alive in cement.