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FLDS-doomsday rumors infest Web

Doomsday scenarios and rumors of an impending mass suicide
by faithful members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints are spreading fast on the World Wide Web.

Several Web sites predict a short and grim future for the FLDS, saying
that the church's leader, Warren Jeffs, is saying the world will end
Wednesday, the 175th anniversary of the founding of the LDS Church.

Much of the news-media frenzy now facing the FLDS church
centers on its doctrine of plural marriage and on Jeffs, who
arranges the marriages and has excommunicated dozens
of prominent men and reassigned their wives and children
to other men.

Jeffs is also being sued in 3rd District Court on child-abuse
allegations and for control of the United Effort Plan Trust,
which owns most of the property in Hildale and Colorado
City. According to court documents, Jeffs has not
responded to either civil lawsuit, prompting a default
judgment to be issued against the 48-year-old leader
of the largest polygamous church in the country.

One of the key sources of speculation was when Jeffs, who
has a reported 50-70 wives, surprised many of his own
followers about a year ago with news that he had purchased
nearly 1,700 acres of ranch land in sparsely populated west
Texas for a new FLDS community. Leaders of the Eldorado
Success newspaper in Schleicher County, Texas, get weekly
updates on the site. Photos of a massive building that
resembles one of the first LDS temples are posted, as are
pictures of large houses, a dairy operation, rock quarry,
orchards, gardens, a warehouse and other buildings.