Posted on 12/22/2009 8:08:53 PM PST by delacoert
There is no case. Not a single shred of evidence. Nothing to see here. Move along now.
Not exactly a Mormon booster huh.
PS I disagree strenuously with Mormon theology, however it would only be fair to point out that all the girls involved would have been considered of marriageable age in the days of Moses.
Now Texas is doing it correctly. One perp at a time.
Yeah, but if a Muslim in America decides to “marry” and have sex with a 10 year-old girl because Mohammed did it, everyone her on FR would be up in arms about it.
Well, there are LAWS against raping little girls in this country at this time.
All these kangaroo court farce trials will be thrown out for illegal search and seizure — a rank violation on the 4th amendment requirement of probable cause for the raid. The raid was illegal per se and was based on a known hoax telephone call from a Colorado nut case that they refuse to extradite because it is so embarrassing to the state. This obvious “African American female voice” on the phone never set foot within 100 miles of the place. The damned caller ID showed she was in COLORADO!! The judge is the idiot that kidnapped 436 children ripping them from their mother’s arm and was humiliated by the Supreme Court as dead wrong. What a joke.
It is one of the many LAWS about which the God of the bible would say “begone, I never knew you.”
Few freepers give a hoot about the Koran. Many respect the Bible.
The girls would have been of marriageable age in the days of my great-great grandmother.
She had a choice in the matter.
I don't know exactly what years that would be, but in the 1800s the average age for marriage for females was around 23.
My g’g’ grandmother married in the late 1870s, just shy of 15 to a 17 y.o. - not a shotgun wedding. And my great grandmother married at 17 to a 21 y.o. in 1904 - not a shotgun wedding.
They weren’t married off by their father or a prophet to another old man.
I knew my great-grandparents - their marriage lasted almost 70 years and they were devoted.
It is for the best that it was broken up. But I agree that I think the state may have overstepped in the way it was done. Probably no good way to crack a cult though...
I also didn't like the way they put all the girls in Foster Homes after pulling them out of there. For most of the girls this was the only place they knew, for better or worse. Seems like it would have been better to drag all the adults out, at least the males, and bring a group of Counselors in until it could be sorted out.
Just didn't seem like it was very well thought out considering how long the cult had been there and how long the state was looking for an angle to break it up.
FLDS isn’t Mormon, any more than Lutherans are Catholic.
Of course, if it was a female schoolteacher and a 15-year-old-boy, a lot of Freepers would be asking to see a picture before deciding if the perp was guilty.
More seriously, I can’t think of a single female teacher who got anything CLOSE to a 30+-year sentence for having sex with a 15-year-old boy (or a 15-year-old-girl, for that matter).
They werent married off by their father or a prophet to another old man.
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I married at barely 17 and it wasn’t a shotgun wedding either but it’s truly dysfunctional for a father, of any religion, to allow his daughter to marry at such a young age, back then or today. It’s just wrong.
Fathers should protect, not be an accomplice to their daughter’s loss of virginty, and father should set the example for a future husband.
Well YFZ has over 1000 residents right now. No “break up”. Here is the travesty. If you drive to your nearest high school and demand the number of 17 year old (or younger) girls who were pregnant in the last 4 years , you will find 40 or 50 in that high school alone. Then demand the number of police reports for statutory rape on those cases and you will find “none”. This was about white Mormons — It was not on the complaint of the mothers. It was gross racial and religious discrimination. Can you imagine the pregnancies of 17 and under in your city?? Rape!! Rape!! Do something!!!
That happened, but the average age for females in the 1800s was about 23.
I don’t know there are a few freepers who don’t think the Bible is a literal retelling of history.
Welcome to FR, but I think you were looking for DU.
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