No just a bunch of weirdness. Wanting those kids back in that nutty situation is insane.
It is one thing to individually and genericly “wnat the child with its parent”. It’s another thing to want to turn kids over to a heretical pack of cultists looking to “spiritually wed” their 12 year old daughters off to nasty old farts.
Definitely a source of differences of opinion on this issue. I’ve noticed that like the Texas Supreme Court we have some Freepers with a very high degree of toleration for child rape, provided, of course, it’s kept inside the “extended family”.
Coming soon to a CPS department near you. Well, maybe, if CPS can win a PR victory with the FLDS raid.
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. : Matthew 25:40
If the Texas CPS was actually in the business of protecting the children at the FLDS ranch, they'd have actually had some evidence, presented it to a judge and gotten valid arrest warrants for the people involved, based upon the testimony of the informer that the sheriff had inside the ranch for four years.
But no, they decided to just get a search warrant based on basically no evidence, unless you count a pseudo-anonymous phone call casting allegations against people that didn't even live at the ranch.
That makes it much more likely to be a test of how far the CPS department could reach rather than a genuine attempt to help the FLDS children.
As it is now, CPS has basically tainted all of the evidence though their high-handed witch hunt and now the chance of actually prosecuting any child abusers inside the FLDS ranch is is practically zero.
Which any first year law student could have told them before they started all this.
It's not like a governmental department like CPS hasn't had dealings with the justice system and is ignorant of the rules of evidence.
So, since they knew what it was they were legally required to do and then didn't do it, one has to ask, "What exactly was the purpose of this evolution?"
My suggested answer to that question is my modification of your response which I posted above.
Some folks apparently can't, or won't, comprehend the crucial difference between the two.