Posted on 07/02/2007 7:53:54 AM PDT by tnarg
Right now there are illegal polygamy settlements in America that claim ties to Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon).
If Mormon Mitt Romney becomes US President, will he see that these colonies are shut down?
This is not a theological matter such as Mormons not accepting the full divinity of Christ. This is not a religious debate over whether or not to accept the Book of Mormon as ‘holy writ.’ This is a legal issue which involves mistreatment of youth, male as well as female. It focuses on child abuse. It is a cultic mindset that warps young people via mind control in the name of “legitimate religion.”
Per Reuters’ Jason Szep, Arizona is one of those locales where such macabre goings-on take place, all masked as a clean, wholesome community of God-fearing adults and offspring. In fact, it is just the opposite. Will Romney expose such unseemliness in order to clean it out in our Republic?
“When Ephraim Hammon returns home from a day of working construction near Arizona’s border with Utah, he’s greeted by his wife SherylLynne. And then by his wife Leah.
“Polygamy, once hidden in the shadows of Utah and Arizona, is breaking into the open as fundamentalist Mormons push to decriminalize it on religious grounds, while at the same time stamping out abuses such as forced marriages of underage brides.
“The growing confidence of polygamists and their willingness to go public come at an awkward moment for mainstream Mormons, who are now in the spotlight as Republican Mitt Romney, a prominent Mormon, seeks the U.S. presidency.”
There have been television exposes breaking wide open for public view what really goes on in these compounds. Now what are lawmakers going to do to cut out this cancer sore? And what will Romney do if in the Oval Office?
After all, Salt Lake City’s headquarters of the Mormon ecclesiastical machine once baptized polygamy as God’s will via Joseph Smith’s so-called visions from the divine. So will Romney begin at the start to admit the cancer’s origin?
“Historians say Smith took at least two dozen wives, some of them before 1843, the year he announced a revelation from God saying polygamy was a crucial key to entering the Kingdom of Heaven.”
With homosexual lifestyles being considered morally acceptable by some mainstream Protestant denominations as well as segments of Roman Catholicism, some advocate that polygamy should then be morally accepted. With political liberals holding hands with theological liberals in accepting sodomy, will these same politicians write into law books the legality of polygamy?
What will Romney’s position be in the showdown?
“The attorneys general of Utah and Arizona said in separate interviews they had no intention of prosecuting polygamists unless they commit other crimes such as taking underage brides – a practice authorities said was rampant in a Utah-Arizona border community run by Warren Jeffs before his arrest in August.
“’We are not going to go out there and persecute people for their beliefs,” said Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard.
“Adds Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff: ‘We determined six or seven years ago that there was no way we could prosecute 10,000 polygamists and put the kids into foster care. There’s no way that we have the money or the resources to do that.’"
Not to worry, there won’t be a President Mitt Romney.
Officially the Salt Lake City headquarters crew banned it because American law would not permit it.
Yet it still exists under the label “Mormon” and so forth.
Will Romney, if elected, do something about this child abuse clot?
That’s the question, not whether the official Mormon headquarters banned it or not. Yes, they banned it. Yet it still exists as a radical appendage of their history.
Another non-federal issue being bumped up to DC. Let’s just do away with state government. I volunteer Calif. and Mass. to go first
Child abuse is the concern of every branch of our government, at least it should be.
In today’s world, one can predict nothing.
Bad logic. The homosexual lifestyle may be considered acceptable by some in the Catholic Church, they do so against the teachings of the Church. Many Protestants agree that it has never been acceptable. Besides, having some consider something acceptable does not make it morally acceptable.
"Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong, and right is right even if nobody is right." - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Ditto to your post.
Your response weakly attempts to imply that if the feds don't police child abuse, they don't care. Nice try, but no cigar.
You express exactly my point.
I do not disagree with your statement.
What I have stated in my post is not bad logic. Instead, my post exposes the wrong positions of liberal Protestants and segments of Roman Catholicism endorsement of evil.
If you mean “bad logic” as related to liberals—political and theological—I agree with you that their logic is both bad and evil.
Did FDR, LBj,Reagan, Bush, Clinton ,Carter did anything on the issue of polygamy.
Or is it only Romney that has to take some action.
BTW, you just joined the site recently, already an attempted hit piece on Romney, pretty strange indeed.
Sorry for the confusion.
I don’t see anything ‘strange’ about being ‘new’ or posting about Romney.
BTW, other presidents should have done something about the subject of my post.
The point is that now if Mormon Romney is in the Oval Office, will he take the moral “bulls by the horns” so as to eliminate child abuse in an appendage of the Mormon history? This would be his perfect chance to do what others have neglected.
The Apostolic United Order has approximately 5,000 members, many of whom live in the community at Pineville, Montana, and the several Mexican colonies.
I have visited the colony in Pineville, MT. There are plenty of one-family polygamists elsewhere in Big Sky country, too.
gotcha.
thanks.
None of these child abuse colonies should exist in America.
Agreed. The attitude of local law enforcement is “Live and Let Live.” Without witnesses to testify, enforcement becomes impossible. Our tax dollars support them since most of the women and children receive public assistance.
You stated what we all should put at the forefront of this issue along with the obviuos child abuse:
“Our tax dollars support them since most of the women and children receive public assistance.”
Thanks for the emphasis.
If it's a pressing federal issue, than all candidates need to be asked the question. If it isn't, then none of the candidates need to be asked.
It would be a totally different story if the author could make some case that Romney, if elected, would either encourage the practices or at least use the weight of the federal government to discourage law enforcement efforts. But the author didn't, choosing instead to make the lazy connection Romney's religion vs. the fact that these nutjobs cloak themselves in a religious facade.
It's garbage like this that allows the Romney supporters to play the "victim" card.
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