Posted on 04/21/2008 1:53:38 PM PDT by Pebcak
I agree with you and tried to say that a few times on this thread.
When the media is using terms like 'rape' and 'compounds', this sent up a red flag for me. People's minds are being manipulated by people we do not even know.
Why?
Freepers are my friends and we love a good topic to debate. No Freeper has ever insulted me, because I know we are all expressing our feelings about a topic.
One of my closest friends, who died of cancer at 35, was an RLDS.
LDS, RLDS, MORMON. I used to think they were the same.
Like Methodist, Protestant, Baptist.
Choice of religion is a personal and family thing, and I never questioned anyone else’s choice. Not even in my own family.
I had never heard of the FLDS until this case started. So I researched it as well as I could.
I feel sorry for the women, children, boys, and adult men who were victims, or did not get the benefits of more than 3 wives, or child-brides.
While I find many of their practices questionable, unless it is strictly illegal, who am I to judge?
But I can say I believe it’s wrong, and help them stop, or stand behind the LE, and CPS in stopping it.
I think the CPS will stick with the underage sex, and any physical abuse issues, and avoid all the other ‘touchy subjects’ that have been the source of much argument here.
IF that’s all they manage to put a stop to, in the end, then I would be happy with that.
Like night and day, they are very different. However, like the Earth's rotating, they have a common origin.
I do not support their choice of religion, but I do understand the reasons why.
As for the government getting involved:
For individual cases, I have no problems with the government getting involved to prevent abuse.
Using a "blanket" excuse to take hundreds of children away from their loving mothers and fathers, that does tend to get me rather upset.
“Using a “blanket” excuse to take hundreds of children away from their loving mothers and fathers, that does tend to get me rather upset. “
What choice did the CPS have?
I stated this before;
If the CPS had taken just a few abused children from the FLDS compound(or anywhere else) and the next day, ten more children were found abused, there would be no end to the clamor to have the heads of CPS on stakes for not removing all the children in the first place.
It would have been different, had the ‘mothers’ and ‘fathers’ fessed up to what child belonged to what parents.
I find it very ironic that a sect of a religion that prides itself on keeping precise geneaology records cannot, or won’t, provide those records to authorities and that DNA samples must be used to determine familial relationships. I wonder if they even keep records. Surely they must.
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