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"And yet it is amazing how many people (not just here on FR) keep missing that essential point."

Not missing the point ... the point has not been ultimately made. There is alot of buzz and rumor and not much action except for the raid and removal of children. Has any man from the sect been charged and/or arrested for forcing marriage on adolescent girls? Have any rape charges been filed? What of the mothers that allowed this to be done?

Our government has broken-up an entire community and is parceling-out children to foster care without any charges against the adults. That is disturbing on a number of levels.

Please understand that I am in no way defending the way of life of these folks, but I am very suspicious of the government's action. What if your neighbor was suspected of impregnating the underaged daughter of another neighbor, and as a result of the suspicion CPS and the Sheriff's office came and took your children and every other child in the subdivision? Would that be okay too?

“Has any man from the sect been charged and/or arrested for forcing marriage on adolescent girls?”

10 by my last count.

The former leader, and self-described prophet, Warren Jeffs, is in a federal penitentiary for ‘accomplice to sex with a minor’.

In July 2005 eight men of the church were indicted for sexual contact with minors. At least some of them surrendered to police in Kingman, Arizona.

On July 29, 2005, Brent Jeffs filed suit accusing three of his uncles, including Warren Jeffs, of sexually assaulting him when he was a child.

In 2003, the church received increased attention from the state of Utah when police officer Rodney Holm, a member of the church, was convicted of unlawful sexual conduct with a 16- or 17-year-old and one count of bigamy for his marriage to and impregnation of plural wife Ruth Stubbs.

What of the mothers that allowed this to be done?

The mothers had no choice in this. Failure to remain loyal to family and husband and religion (by keeping the dirty secret) is meted out by being ‘transferred’ to a different (read... meaner) husband, possibly in a different FLDS branch.

Any children the mother had can be transferred to anyone of the PROPHET’s choosing.

“Our government has broken-up an entire community and is parceling-out children to foster care without any charges against the adults.”

So far. For their safety, and to finish the investigation, lab tests, etc.

Charges may be pending. We don’t know.

“What if your neighbor was suspected of impregnating the underaged daughter of another neighbor, and as a result of the suspicion CPS and the Sheriff’s office came and took your children and every other child in the subdivision? Would that be okay too?”

I would say that that will never happen. A regular neighborhood, and the confines of a walled citadel where ‘outsiders’ are not allowed, is not the same thing.

Should the next to impossible happen, and your scenario occur, then I am sure I would be outraged, and demand my child back.

But at least I would have something the women of the FLDS don’t.

It would be my child, and not a child produced by unknown parents, whose name I wasn’t even sure of.