Posted on 04/25/2008 2:27:00 PM PDT by JRochelle
The raid this month on a polygamist sect's Texas ranch left more than 400 children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in state custody.
Under any circumstances, children have trouble adjusting to a world in which their parents suddenly are gone. But in this case, these children likely will be put in an outside world that they have been raised to see as evil.
To better understand their plight, The Washington Times spoke with three former members of the FLDS as well as Rowenna Erickson, a founding member of Tapestry Against Polygamy (Polygamy.org).
The Utah-based organization supports children and vulnerable adults seeking to leave the polygamous lifestyle.
"Polygamy is one big male excuse" for sex, Mrs. Erickson told The Times, using graphic language.
She grew up in the Latter-day Church of Christ, a polygamous Mormon sect also known as the Kingston family. At age 20, she became the second wife of her older sister's husband; the couple bore eight children together.
"My children and I lived in dire poverty in a two-and-a-half bedroom house," Mrs. Erickson said.
Her husband lived separately from the family, and she was prohibited from disclosing their true relationship to others — including to the couple's own children — so as not to raise the suspicion of the civil authorities.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
This article proves once again that polygamy is straight from the pits of hell.
FIP Ping
I don’t see what is in it for the guys? Did people find any of those women atractive? My Gooness. It was the biggest does of anti-viagra one could imagine. But that’s just me.
They’re infected with terminal i’dhitititis, with a side order of herekittykitty.
I suspect that when the smoke clears, Texas will be nearly bankrupted. Instead of individual ‘due process’ all children were forcibly taken from their parents - not just those ‘at risk’, but every child. If the threat is to underage girls, then why are the boys taken? Why are children under 5 being forcibly separated from their mothers?
The phone call was a hoax, and this is the basis for everything that Texas has done. No evidence, no criminal complaints - but private property was seiged, women were forcibly separated from their children - at people somehow support this....
If the issue is polygamy, fine. Due process, and press charges. If the issue is statutory rape, fine; press charges and have trials. But wholesale abduction of 100% of all the children is simply wrong.
I find it somewhat hypocritical, that in today’s society polygamy is looked upon as a huge crime; but a man can father unlimited children with unlimited women out of wedlock; and that’s just fine. In fact, if the police were to storm the ghetto and remove the children from groups of single mothers, who have a child without any ceremony from a single sperm donor - there would be hell to pay.
People seem eager to allow the gov’t to side-step the law; when their emotions get the better of them. I wonder if they will be this tolerant when some bureaucrat decides to take a short-cut and take your children from you.
Child molesters, don't care what they look like. The perverts are into because they are sick and they need to be put down.
But mine is pretty and has more periscopes....
“Did people find any of those women attractive?”
Part of it might be that as far as men go, these aren’t the kind of men that have much of what it takes to measure very well in the invisible hierarchy of maleness, so they settle.
The other thing that contributes to the women’s lack of sex appeal (I think) is that the magic underwear conceals and restrains any natural body form and feminine movement so it makes them appear a little sterile, with none of that womanliness that stirs the juices.
Thirdly is that they seem empty inside, there is no spark of an individual emerging for your senses to respond to, in fact their flatness stirs a lot of negative feelings like pity, annoyance, revulsion and such, not the kind of feelings that leads a man to want a woman.
The law (well tested in the courts) requires that ALL the minors be removed from such an address until the cause of the crime is eliminated.
Texas is at no risk of bankruptcy over any of this.
F(lds) is, however.
I hope their peanut gallery gets picked up too.
I agree with that. I don't like the fact they are put in a safe area of prison. I truly resent that their victims didn't get mercy so why should they? I would toss them right into the general prison population. I don't want to pay for perverts in jail. I also don't like paying for murderers on death row, if there is 100% DNA or other solid proof that proves they did the crime I am for the death penalty.
Periscope envy?
Here you go, Hodar. My post from another thread.
’ve noticed that on every thread, every possible argument against the state of Texas is thrown up multiple times. Ie,
The “illegal” search warrant argument
The inner city underage pregancies argument
The ripping the babies away from their mothers argument
The “all religions are in danger” argument
The “you are tarring all Mormons with the FLDS brush” argument
The “file charges if you think there’s rape” argument
The “remove the fathers instead of the children” argument
The “hundred years ago, everyone got married at 14” argument
The “All over the world, polygamy is legal” argument
And on and on.
You and others keep bring up the same arguments from thread to thread, no matter how many times they have been addressed, answered, shown to be wrong, whatever.
I recommend reading the responses and coming up with something new, but hey! it’s a free country.
Blame it all on polygamy? There’s more to the issue than that simple-minded approach.
It’s about power and control, as well as multiple presumably disease-free sex partners.
I think that this sort of thing is clearly for people who suffer from being extremely emotionally immature and/or are mentally damaged in some way.
The men can't relate to normal women on normal terms, and have to either prey on children or women who have no other choice, having been raised in this crippling environment.
And the women are so mentally stunted that they are incapable of saying no to anything, including their own abuse or the abuse of their children.
If it is known by it's fruits, the FLDS is a rotten tree all the way down to the very roots.
At least some of the women are finally changing their tunes and are going to family violence shelters rather than return to the men who have abused their children. There is an article in the Houston Chronicle today about this very subject. (pops)
Too much! ROTFL, or as some would say FOTFL
Just think ‘talking points’.
I believe someone,on another thread, has already pointed out there is a website where one can go to get the latest ‘talking points’. A website sponsored by the ...........FLDS.
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