the808bass: “When you presuppose it’s a witch hunt, your conclusion will find it’s a witch hunt.”
When you presuppose the cultists are guilty, your conclusion will find they are guilty.
When I view the testimony of former cultists from years before this particular raid, when I read the facts of how many of these cultists have admitted to taking multiple underage wives, when I read the facts of multiple members of this cult having been convicted in courts of law of child molestation, when I read the statements of the prophet on their preferred practices and see that all these things line up with what the state is alleging, I find it more compelling to agree with the current position of the state given what we currently know.
Could that change for me? Yes. If evidence presented in this case becomes contradictory to the government's claims, the former cultist's claims, and the statements of their own teachings.
Could your opinion change for you? I have my doubts.