FLDS supporters to protest outside Utah Jazz game

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_Phaedrus Ut
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FLDS supporters to protest outside Utah Jazz game

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Group plans to protest Jazz game due to FLDS situation

Sympathies for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint families in Texas are now reverberating beyond the courtroom and into the arena.

Some Utah supporters of the FLDS families are calling for the cancellation of the next two playoff games between the Utah Jazz and the Houston Rockets.

Salt Lake City attorney Bob Breeze is calling for a protest rally tomorrow night and Saturday outside the EnergySolutions Arena. He says this is the perfect opportunity to get nationwide media coverage on the civil rights violations being committed in Texas.

Breeze is asking local FLDS supporters to show up at the hotel rooms of the Rockets' players. "We're working on a plan to have a number of the polygamist women go and have a meeting with the team players," he said.

He says he will provide the paint to make your own protest signs.



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// This is a PR nightmare for the church. :-)
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Neither the Jazz nor the Rockets are at fault for what's happening in Texas.

The polygamy situation is getting plenty of coverage already. If people don't realize how this situation is problematic after all the coverage already going on, then I think they are probably wilfully ignorant. The internet is widely available (at your local library if necessary) if one wants details.
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Re: FLDS supporters to protest outside Utah Jazz game

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Phaedrus Ut wrote:
He says he will provide the paint to make your own protest signs.


This part made me chuckle. I'm sure people will spend more money on gas getting to the protest than they will on paint for their sign. But I suppose it is generous of him to offer.
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Polygamous women meeting with Rockets players?

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