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Polygamous leader took out loan for end of world prep
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The Canadian Press
Date: Thursday Jan. 26, 2012 2:46 PM ET
VANCOUVER — Polygamous leader Winston Blackmore says he took out a $25,000 loan to prepare for the end of the world.
During testimony in federal tax court, Blackmore says he was directed by a patriarch in the community to get the money to "prepare for the worst."
The Bountiful, B.C. leader says the money was to be used to gather supplies, but the deadline passed without incident.
Blackmore later wrote in a website newsletter for members of his faith that another deadline had come and gone, marking 15 such predictions that had passed.
When asked by federal government lawyer Lynn Burch if predictions of the destruction of the world were part of the FLDS belief system, he said No.
However, Blackmore did agree it was certainly part of the practice of his religion.
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