I want to know if this judge is a Baptist. The reason I’m asking is because they used Baptist buses to cart away the children and Baptists volunteered to care for “the children” after they were rounded up at gunpoint. Furthermore, I want to know how many of the law enforcement thugs who went in there were Baptists . . . thinking they are doing God a great big favor!
Those poor pathetic FLDS people, they must be absolutely horrified at the way they are being treated in the “land of the free”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_QG1UqHLs&feature=related
Well, the whole thing is a mess from start to finish.
As I said earlier, the chief sufferers are the children. If they are sexually abused, that’s bad; if they are taken from their parents, that’s bad; if they are taken over by the state system, that’s worst of all. Although the charge that brought on the intervention was evidently false, there is also some evidence that there were, in fact, some problems.
IMHO, the Texas authorities should have acted much sooner, and probably would have in earlier days, before things began to loosen up in the late 60s. It makes no sense to overlook public polygamy for years, and then swoop in and confiscate all the resulting children.
In earlier days, polygamy simply was not allowed in the U.S. Of course the Mormon Church had problems with this in the nineteenth century, but then had the revelation that polygamy was no longer to be practiced in the old way, and it has not been a problem since except with sects that have broken away from the LDS.
It certainly makes no sense to let polygamists assemble numerous wives, have children with many of them, raise their families, and then swoop in and break it all up, maybe 20 years too late.
There doesn’t seem to be any really good solution, but in the circumstances it is certainly best to return the children to their parents.
Here are a few facts. The Baptist buses were used because the compound was raided on a Thursday afternoon.
Believe it or not, school was in session that day. The kids had to go home somehow. They ran out of Baptist buses, and they did end up using some school buses later.
I know that you are Mormon and you feel a connection to the FLDS Mormons, but come on! It is possible that this judge has the best interest of the kids in mind!
And the Beltway Baptist Church donated bicycles for all of the children. Oh, the horrors!