Polygamist sect advertising leaders’ revelations

SALT LAKE CITY -- Faithful followers of imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs are making his apocalyptic writings available to the public through advertisements placed in newspapers nationwide, including the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The ads also appeared in Friday editions of The Washington Post, The New York Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Salt Lake Tribune and other newspapers.

The ad offers copies of various revelations by Jeffs at prices ranging from $2 to $10.

A Washington Post ad sales representative tells The Associated Press a quarter-page ad in the newspaper costs about $10,000. Friday's ad in the Review-Journal was billed at the national political open rate of about $3,200; two other ads are appearing in the paper on Sunday.

The 56-year-old Jeffs has been sect president since 2002 and has long predicted natural disasters and the destruction of the world. Threats have increased since his 2010 conviction in Texas on sexual assault charges.

He's serving a prison sentence of more than 20 years.

A message left for Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints patriarch Vaughan Taylor was not returned Friday.