How would you know that? I don’t know much about the religion except what I learned from here at FREEPERS and bottom line is most think it is a cult. What a Wacko!
I know about that as a member of the church and having grown up in the Church all my life. There is NOTHING in our religion, beliefs, doctrine, practices, traditions or culture that sanctions this kind of behavior. If I were to make a prediction, this woman is going to be in danger of excommunication.
There's wackos in all faiths. If we were to characterize every religion by the wackos that happen to belong to them and hold them up as an example of that religion per se, there would be no religions left in the world worth believing in.
This one kind of surprised me, although it really shouldn't. It's just sad when people feel justified in using religion to justify their cruelty. I hope the kids can get removed from that environment and have a chance to recover from the hell they've had to go through.
If there was a rash of Mormons doing what these women were doing, you’d have a point.
Trust me, NONE of this had anything to do with Mormon church teachings or practices. First of all, two cohabiting women acquiring children together (note that at least one of the children, and almost certainly, were born after within the 9 year period that these women have been operating this torture facility) is completely outside the bounds of Mormon teaching. On top of that, if this was an active Mormon family, the children would have been in regular contact with their bishop, home teachers, and the leaders of the Primary, Young Men’s, and Young Women’s program, including private interviews with the bishop prior to baptism at age 8 and (for the boys) priesthood ordination at age 12. No way could this have gone on for 9 years. MAYBE, in an unusually messed up Mormon ward (parish) something like this could have gone in a household with a married couple, headed by a priesthood-holding member father, if the husband/father had the wife and kids too cowed to complain to Church leaders. But with this very unorthodox 2-woman couple, which continued to acquire children together, they would have been targets for very close scrutiny by the local leaders.