Profiles in Alleged LDS Church of Satan Members: Ann and Paul Larsen Pt. 2
The Familial Network of Paul and Ann Larsen
For Connie Fielding, June 3, 2013 began with a glimmer of hope. She was meeting with her Stake President Michael T. Nelson after a run of bad luck. Fielding had lost her job and she had been evicted from her rental home, and just five days before her youngest son Tanner had graduated from high school. Fielding’s life was tumultuous, dating back to her 1996 divorce when she had alleged that her ex-husband was engaged in domestic violence and abuse. Fielding believed that Nelson would help her find new housing, and she went to the meeting with hope that things would turn around. She also had various medical issues that required surgery, which she was unable to afford.
Fielding’s divorce from her husband Russell K Hollingshead had defined her life. The divorce had commenced in 1993, with Connie filing in June 1993, and a judgment entered on January 3, 1994 in the Fourth District Court, Provo. In January 1995, Russell Hollingshead sued for divorce, and on May 20, 1998, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and the Order and Judgment were filed. On November 30, 1999, a petition to modify the divorce decree was filed, and this would lead to ten years worth of court battles. Case #026902439 detailed an ongoing issue with child support arrearages that increased as high as $15,735.86, all while Hollingshead had the money to pay attorneys’ fees for multiple court battles.
Over the course of her dealings with Hollingshead, Fielding became an advocate for divorced mothers, arguing that corrupt judges in Utah had conspired with husbands to remove children from the custody of mothers. Fielding alleged that corruption in the family court system and among child welfare workers was rampant, enabling abusive husbands and fathers to prevail in custody hearings.
She had also met with LDS higher ups such Elder L. Whitney Clayton, a member of the Presidency of the Seventy, and Elder Bradley D. Foster, a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. Fielding wanted policy changes for church discipline to target corrupt LDS members who facilitated custody on the behalf of abusive fathers.
While Fielding's prominence as an activist was growing, her life was increasingly fractured. She remarried again, only to end up divorced a second time. There were multiple bouts with the courts involving civil stalking injunctions filed against Fielding, but most of the efforts failed due to the fact that the petitioners failed to allege any specific facts showing that Fielding was stalking them.
And so it was that at noon on June 3, 2013, Connie Fielding walked into her stake president’s office expecting help with her housing situation. Nelson allegedly told Fielding that the church would help her with her medical issues, but under one condition: she had to agree to check into the hospital for “a three day medical physical.” When she questioned Nelson about the specifics, Nelson told her that in order for the church to pay for her medical treatment, any procedures would have to be performed at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah, two hours away from Midway.
When Fielding agreed to drive herself to Ogden, Nelson told her that she would have to allow him to drive her because he was arranging payment. Nelson would need to personally admit her to McKay-Dee Hospital. Nelson used the fact that her homelessness could result in her son’s removal from her home as a cudgel, cajoling her into acquiescing to his terms.
Nelson drove Fielding to the hospital, where she entered through the emergency entrance. While in an examination room, Fielding was told that she was being involuntarily committed to McKay-Dee on a psychiatric hold. She was held for 18 days in lockdown at McKay-Dee Hospital, and it was only after a public outcry and the efforts of Bill Windsor of Lawless America that she was released.
Michael T. Nelson claimed that Fielding had asked him for a ride to McKay-Dee Hospital, which he provided. This does not explain how she came to be involuntarily committed rather than voluntarily committed. The commitment order was signed by Blaine R Hickman, a clinical social worker and therapist whose Psychology Today profile identifies his main specialty as “working with people experiencing difficulty in reconciling their religion with their sexual orientation.”
Blaine Hickman is a self-identified gay man who is married to a woman, and he has built his brand around that identity. He appears in videos for the Voices of Hope Project, the offshoot of North Star International.
North Star’s Mission is to be a faith-affirming resource for Latter-day Saints addressing sexual orientation and gender identity who desire to live in harmony with the teachings of Jesus Christ and the doctrines and values of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
North Star holds annual conferences, and the featured keynotes at those conferences are LDS luminaries such as General Young Women’s President Emily Belle Freeman. Freeman has previously lauded LGBTQIA LDS personality Charlie Bird, whose work was covered in the recent article LDS Church of Satan Toy Story.
Hickman summed up his position in a video statement he gave for the 2013 Reconciling Faith & Feelings Conference:
There was always this feeling that if I was going to be a member of the church that there would be part of me that I would just have to kind of ignore and I would have to pretend didn’t exist. I think the more that I, um, read and really pondered what the nature of God is and how he feels about me it really didn’t make sense that, that there would be the split between what he wants me to do and what I feel like I need to do in order to be happy in my life.
The calling of Christ is one that requires us to choose Him over what we feel we need to do in our flesh in order to be happy. Instead of choosing the happiness of the flesh, we are transformed to hunger after the things of the Spirit. Blaine Hickman and others within the LDS are clearly working within the LDS to bring the church closer to legitimating homosexuality and transgenderism, up to and including accepting both as compatible with biblical doctrine.
It is telling that an LDS Stake President drove two hours from Midway, Utah to Ogden, Utah to find a clinical social worker to sign commitment papers that involuntarily committed Connie Fielding for 18 days, while Blaine Hickman collected reports from Fielding’s ex-husband and his family members alleging that she was mentally unbalanced due to her belief that the courts and child welfare system in Utah were corrupt. Hickman used these reports in his affidavits to justify involuntarily committing Fielding. There were closer hospitals in Midway, Provo, and Salt Lake City, but Michael T. Nelson drove Connie Fielding two hours north to Ogden, where she was involuntarily committed for 18 days and would have been held longer had it not been for the efforts of others who knew Fielding.
Time and time again, LGBTQIA LDS members figure prominently in the LDS Church of Satan’s activities, be it alleged LDS High Council Punisher Gordon Bowen or David Lee Hamblin, who allegedly engaged in bisexual activities with other CS men. Randall Lake, an openly gay artist in Spring City, was also allegedly a member of the CS according to the Hamblin children. The women of the CS were all bisexual, and all engaged in same sex contact with each other and with female children. W.D. Erickson’s 1988 study Behavior Patterns of Child Molesters chronicled the fact that 86% of pedophiles surveyed classified themselves as either homosexual or bisexual.
The fact that Blaine Hickman is an admittedly bisexual man who used his position as a clinical social worker and therapist to involuntarily commit an LDS mother, Connie Fielding, who had the majority of three separate decades arguing that abuse was prevalent within the LDS, is therefore highly significant.
What is even more significant is this: Michael T. Nelson is Paul Larsen’s brother-in-law through his wife Ann’s sister, Barbara Fluckiger. The Church spokesperson who accused Connie Fielding of lying about Michael T. Nelson’s actions was Ruth Todd, who is now a Nu Skin executive. Nu Skin is the MLM company founded by Nedra and Blake Roney, whose family has been examined in prior articles for its repeated ties to neighborhoods known to have clusters of alleged CS members according to the Hamblin Victims Statements.
Nelson was recently called to serve a second counselor in the Young Men’s Presidency with Steven J. Lund, the president and CEO of Nu Skin Enterprises. Lund is also a regent of the Utah System of Higher Education.
Conclusion
The investigation into the allegations against David Lee Hamblin and the LDS Church of Satan continues to turn up ties to current leaders within the LDS. Moreover, many of those ties involve individuals whose sympathies towards homosexual relationships and activity are in clear violation of official church doctrine. Those individuals are not disciplined, and they do not lose their callings. Instead, they are allowed to appear at various conferences for organizations like North Star, where they openly espouse their hopes that the church will soon open its arms to full acceptance of the LGBTQIA lifestyle, even though that lifestyle has been shown to be conclusively linked with the abuses of David Lee Hamblin and the accused members of the LDS Church of Satan.
There is simply no greater coup that the CS could achieve beyond gaining the acquiescence of the LDS authorities on the issue of same sex relationships, which are condemned in Leviticus as being on par with incest and bestiality. Such a concession would be the ultimate profaning of the sacred, and would ask the laity of the LDS to believe that God would contradict Himself through his Prophet, Seer, and Revelator and the First Presidency.
Given the propensity of the gay community to argue for a full repeal of age of consent laws in order to enable sexual activity between adults and children, acquiescence to the LGBTQIA contingent within the LDS would put the church a stone’s throw away from legitimating pedophilia as an orientation, as a prior article pointed out:
In 1995, the United Nations severed ties with the International Lesbian and Gay Association, which counted NAMBLA as a member organization, over ILGA’s refusal to cut ties with six member organizations that promoted pedophilia. The UN did so after the U.S. Congress threatened to reduce its contribution to the UN’s budget by $119 million. Rather than kick pedophiles out of its membership, ILGA sacrificed its seat at the UN table.
ILGA had previously passed multiple resolutions calling for the abolition of age of consent laws. Gay publications made it their business to issue provocative declarations, with San Francisco’s The Sentinel claiming "[t]he love between man and boys is at the foundation of homosexuality.” Guide magazine stated that children were sexual, and deserving of sex with whoever they choose, and gays should proclaim the goodness of child sexuality for the sake of the children.
The CS operated in secret during the Eighties and Nineties and beforehand, its membership accumulating and clustering in various wards and stakes to enable their heresies. Today, the principles of the CS with regard to sexual mores and values is out in the open, as LDS members openly espouse the normalization of homosexuality, thereby reclassifying an explicitly identified sin in the Bible as righteousness.
That is why the allegations against David Lee Hamblin matter, and it is why the investigation into the alleged LDS Church of Satan is relevant. It is why the networks between explicitly identified alleged CS members and those whose names do not appear in the Hamblin Victims’ Statements are relevant as well. Connie Fielding’s example stands as a troubling indicator of how power is wielded within the LDS to shut down allegations of abuse similar to those made by David Lee Hamblin’s four daughters, and the two current victims.
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