Source: Salt Lake Tribune

For the past three years, members of a polygamous sect stayed silent as the state took over and began to dismantle their 66-year-old communal property trust.

No more.

At least 300 men, women and children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints crowded into a federal courtroom and spilled into hallways Wednesday, as lawyers sought to block a state court hearing on the proposed sale of land they consider sacred.

U.S. District Court Judge Dee Benson took no immediate action, but asked the sect’s attorneys to give him a report on the hearing, set for Friday in St. George. He will later decide whether to hear claims that its religious rights were violated in the takeover and management of its communal property trust, the United Effort Plan.

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