I didn’t ask if you were a Dem because you pointed out the obvious - but because you resorted to instant name-calling instead of presenting an argument.
And no, I don’t think it is every Mormon girl’s wish to run away with a lunatic, I think that this girl was from a peculiar family with an extremely impaired sense of reality, who put their daughters at risk by giving strange men who were mentally disturbed access to their home. That alone is mind-boggling. This man had the delusion that he was some kind of messiah and I believe that he seduced this gullible teenager into believing some pseudo-religious nonsense.
It is very easy to get heated and defensive about the purity of this girl, but this man was not a stranger, as in the Polly Klass abduction/murder in Petaluma, and the exact details of the Smart abduction are still hazy.
So let me understand. because this man was hired in the house at some point it is not considered a kidnapping? Somehow this girl asked for it?