Posted on 05/01/2008 4:44:54 PM PDT by Politicalmom
Families have been destroyed by the government. This is what got me upset.
This is more of a situation like a judge saying certain words are "out of bounds"...but when the prosecution itself opens up an exploration into those very words/terms, then previously establish boundaries by the judge are off.
When the LDS is reported to have "disavowed" polygamy, and there are current vows saying otherwise, then previously established boundaries are "off." (Similar to when a poster declares a thread as a "caucus" but claims are made in the article posted that leave it open to be rebutted.)
Statutory rapists who father children with multiple underage wives are not the "basic unit of our civilization." Quite the opposite.
In abusive homes, it's done all the time. This cult is one great big communal abusive home.
That’s just stupid. The girl is a ward of the state. How could the baby NOT be a ward of the state? By giving it to the other cultists?
President Hillary will be fantastic for some Freepers...
org.whodat: “Ignorance on full display.”
Could you be a bit more specific?
Wrong!
So from this, we can presume that you would prefer to allow a child to be abused, perhaps even to his death, rather than removed from an abusive home? I mean, after all, we can't be doing things "for the children," now, can we?
Now imagine that you were 15 when you had your first kid, you just had your second, your "husband" is 22 and you are living in a compound in Texas where polygamy is the rule, not the exception. Your husband was picked out for you by the cult leader who is in jail for facilitating rape and you had no say. Could you accept that?
You cannot pretend that this is suburban America where a high school girl got pregnant by a classmate. I don't know why you wish to. Ignoring the basic particulars of the present case to construct scary hypotheticals where all of our babies get taken away tomorrow does not strengthen your argument.
Guess what?
They did. I met with the case worker, she said it was obvious my children were well-loved, well taken care of, and I never heard from her again.
Maybe if you aren’t abusing your kids, you don’t have to worry so much.
This is not a good enough reason to give the state legal custody of the child unless they can prove abuse, and if they can, why keep the two of them together? The thought of the government 'allowing' me to keep my children until they decide otherwise is terrifying.
Oh my, I had three broken bones when I was a child. Obviously my parents beat me (NOT).
“Families”, my eye.
Oh, they share that task among the young ladies at the compound. No need to worry.
By the by, the baby has not been removed from the mother's presence.
The lack of logic in that statement is staggering.
Gee, you’ve won me over with your eloquence. ;-)
Families have been destroyed by the government.
And the moms and dads are a pure as the wind driven snow..... I see.
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Because these brainwashed victim women will go running off to one of the other compounds as soon as they get the chance and put themselves right back into slavery and willingly raise their daughters to be sex slaves. That’s why.
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