FLDS Mothers May Have To Abandon Religion To Reunite With Children

KUTV News ^ | 5/15/2008 | Rod Decker

[JRochelle]

I don't think they have to give up their religion. They just have to abandon the practice of polygamy. Just like the LDS chuch has done.

[JRochelle]

Polygamy Ping!

[Red Badger]

I can see this going all the way to the SCOTUS............

[commonguymd]

“Texas official issued new rules, Thursday, that dictate what
the mothers will have to do before the state will return the 464 children.”

Making it up as they go. All your religions belong to us.

[Graybeard58]

I can see this going all the way to the SCOTUS

With pro bono legal services from the ACLU.

[JRochelle]

Tell me what would they be claiming? That they have the right to be polygamists?

[commonguymd]

Well thank God the government steps up because now the little boys can be adopted into gay marriage homes in California and have two daddies.

[CindyDawg]

Texas has nothing to do with what is going on in Calif.

[P-Marlowe]

Authorities point out that many of the teenage girls in custody were pregnant, some as young as 13 years old. They also say there is a conspiracy of secrecy within the mothers. They say that FLDS moms will not cooperate with identifying their children.

Ok, lets see if anyone wants to defend that.

[LIConFem]

" because now the little boys can be adopted into gay marriage homes in California and have two daddies."

At least!

[commonguymd]

First I had heard of a 13 year old being pregnant. Not that it is uncommon in Norfolk, VA or any other city in this country. If the father is over the age, arrest him, try him, and convict him. That might oddly enough happen once in awhile in the inner city, but the mother generally keeps the child regardless.

[Ditter]

When a man who is not in this religious sect marries more than one woman, what is his punishment? Jail time? fines?

[alloysteel]

Just to clarify, not to give up ALL religion, and become completely atheistic, only to give up a couple of troubling concepts that seem to have no place in the wider societies.

Hmmm. Perhaps we could apply this to various other religions not of US origin, as a price of being accepted into the US society.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is of uniquely American origin. So were the Branch Davidians. One was finally accepted, the other was obliterated.

[Tax-chick]

I can see SCOTUS agreeing that they have a right to polygamy, following the Lawrence v. Texas precedent. If not, they would, logically, have to overturn Lawrence. If it's not done on this case, it will just be another in a couple of years. Maybe a Moslem plaintiff would be more sympathetic ...

[CindyDawg]

We have freedom of religion, which is very important to fight for. That doesn’t mean that people who break the law can hide under the name of religion though. If that was the case, people could commit any crime they wanted and never be held accountable.

[Red Badger]

Bill of Rights
Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;...........

[JRochelle]

So you would prefer them to have a whole bunch of moms over two dads? LOL

They are same. Polygamy and gay marriage. Both demean what a family should mean.

[lady lawyer]

The polygamists don’t legally marry their plural wives. They have “spiritual” ceremonies, but they don’t get marriage licenses from the state. Thus, they are not committing bigamy, as that is usually defined in state statutes. From a purely legal point of view, it is a multiple shack up, which is not a crime.

[lady lawyer]

Polygamy and gay marriage aren’t quite the same. Polygamy at least makes biological sense. Gay marriage makes no sense.

[JRochelle]

Unbelievable.

So if gays were claiming they have the right to religious freedom by getting married to each other, would that be acceptable?

Polygamy is evil. I don’t care if you wrap it in religion, you don’t get to do it in this country. As of now.