You state you are sad, why?
Are you sad because women and girls are held against their will?
Are you sad that young girls are forced into marriage?
Are you sad young girls are forced to marry old men?
Or are you sad this is yet another news story about the flds, exposing their hideous activities or are you sad it is on going and people seem unable or unwilling to stop the practice or are you sad because it was posted?
What part makes you sad?
I’m sad about all of the above.
I am also sad that so many seem anxious to smear group A with the misdeeds of group B.
Despite the fact that group B withdrew from group A many decades ago and denounces it as a tool of the Devil. And that group A excommunicates those who practice the essential teaching of group B.
As I said before, I’m not a fan of the Mormon Church(es), LDS or (especially) FLDS. But I think each group should be criticized for its own misdeeds rather than those of another group with a similar name and related though distinct teachings.
People have hollered at me similarly when I object to unfair and inaccurate criticism of Muslims. I do NOT object to fair and accurate criticism of Islam or Mormonism. And I think both groups have plenty to criticize that is entirely accurate.
Think of it this way. When the term “Catholic” is used, 99% of the population thinks of the RCC and only of the RCC, though there are other “Catholic” groups.
Assume one of these groups takes up the practice of human sacrifice and headlines all over the world read, “Catholics Perform Human Sacrifice.”
Would that be fair to the RCC or its many non-human sacrificing members around the world?