Posted on 12/24/2009 7:13:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Point is non citizens are none of my concern other than to aide in their removal from the country.
Rifqa needs to get on the opposite side of the globe from these vultures and change her name.
Why isn't she an emancipated minor NOW? Good grief, there's all kind of precedent for this. Parents and almost-adult children experience sever conflicts all the time!
Why hasn’t ACLJ jumped on this rather than let her have a court appointed attorney?
If her parents were fundamentalist Christians, and she wanted to leave to become a pagan/Wiccan earth worshiper....
By Now:
She’d be free to live anywhere with anybody
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There was just such a case several years ago. The daughter was granted emancipation.
Mind you, if I was a local pastor, I’d have a chain of unmarked vehicles ready to go: she walks out the door on her birthday and. . .disappears.
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There is a modern “underground railroad” for women who want to escape the polygamous groups. They, too, often fear for their lives. Safe houses, legal resources, job training.
Some of these groups would also probably help someone like Rifqa.
I’m with you here. But what is your response to Rifqa’s parent’s contention that she’s just 17 years old, a minor who is very impressionable and got involved with people who influenced her against her better judgment ?
Sure, we’re a free country, but has it been our tradition that minors have a right to choose what they want to believe in ?
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No one can stop her faith, however practice of a religion may be restricted until she comes of age.
I wanted to join the LDS church at age 16, but due to my family’s opposition, I had to wait until I was 18 to officially join.
However, that did not change my faith, just limited my official/public practice of that faith.
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