NATION : Halt Bomb Shelters, Sect Told
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CORWIN SPRINGS, Mont. — A judge ordered a controversial survivalist sect to halt work on a bomb shelter complex north of Yellowstone National Park today, the day church members had predicted that 12 years of global cataclysms would begin.
The mostly completed shelters remained unfilled Sunday night and today as hundreds of Church Universal and Triumphant members packed the chapel on their 33,000-acre ranch to chant away 25,800 years worth of “bad karma” that they believe will visit mankind over the next 12 years.
District Judge Byron Robb’s temporary injunction may prevent the church from completing a 756-person shelter complex for up to a year. Robb set a May 3 hearing on the state’s motion to halt shelter construction until an environmental analysis is completed on the shelters’ septic system and other church developments.
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