The raid on the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas, has turned into what will be a long legal siege. As coverage winds down, here's the latest news:

• FLDS member Willie Jessop is asking Gov. Jon Huntsman to enter the fray on the side of the polygamists because many of the victims include "Utah residents being held hostage by the Texas authorities." He invited Huntsman to visit the YFZ ranch. Hmm. Jon in front of the FLDS temple. I'm sure that's a photo op Huntsman, who has aspirations for national office, wants in his album.

• The Tribune's Brooke Adams offers a view of the raid from the inside. When Texas authorities took eight of Richard Barlow's children — utlimately to be scattered to foster homes across the state — he walked them to the bus and told them:

Let us be at peace. Be strong.

• A summit on polygamy in St. George Thursday will attract social service workers, polygamists and government officials from as far away as Texas. Utah Attorney General's spokesman Paul Murphy says he is looking forward to seeing some Texas child welfare workers at the gathering:

We want for them to answer questions, and also ask questions and learn from what we've been doing here.

• Meanwhile, Deseret News Media Observer Joel Campbell is sounding like an LDS Church flack as the church circles its wagons. He lashes out at reporters' sloppiness in differentiating between LDS and FLDS (That pesky 'F'):

Part of the problem is journalist's lack of understanding about the stark differences between the FLDS and LDS churches. Naively they write as if both fall under the umbrella of "Mormonism," or "Mormon faith." ...

Probably the most disturbing writing and bigotry was the work of New York Times writer Timothy Egan as he tries to link the LDS and FLDS.

But Campbell (and the LDS PR office) avoid addressing the troublesome argument that the LDS and FLDS are siblings descended from the same controversial figure, Joseph Smith:

It would have been just another Christian faith had not Smith let his libido lead him into trouble. Before he died at the hands of a mob, he married at least 33 women and girls; the youngest was 14, and was told she had to become Smith’s bedmate or risk eternal damnation.

...His polygamy “revelation” was put into The Doctrine and Covenants, one of three sacred texts of Mormonism. It’s still there – the word of God. And that’s why, to the people in the compound at Eldorado, the real heretics are in Salt Lake City.

Help us naive journalists out, Joel: 1. Does the LDS Church believe in polygamy in the afterlife? 2. Was the renunciation of polygamy in this world permanent, or just a temporary political expediant to win statehood?

Give it to us starkly.

By the way, a headline on the DNews Sunday editorial page may have made Joel pull his hair out — before he read further:

Mainstream no better than FLDS

The editorial was NOT referring to mainstream Mormons, but mainstream American culture.