Silent, secretive sect unleashes public relations campaign

clipped from hosted.ap.org Before authorities raided their west Texas retreat, members of a secretive polygamous church spent decades holding as tightly to their intense privacy as the Scriptures guiding their way of life. Contact with outsiders was limited. Media inquiries were rejected with either stone-faced silence or a polite "no comment." But after Texas officials removed 416 children belonging to members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the sect fired up the public relations machine.