Posted on 01/17/2010 7:28:40 PM PST by delacoert
FLDS ping
Bump.
It is the American version of radical Islam.
There is a real need to help these women. Polygamy is incredibly abusive. I knew several polygamists when I lived in UT and several ex-polygamists now.
There is a WONDERFUL ministry that not only helps women (and men) escape polygamy but also come to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. Pass this site on to others and support in anyway you can (I am not affiliated):
http://www.shieldandrefuge.org
Seems that there aren’t any male teenagers in the pictures... wonder why?
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Very good question. Teenage boys are often expelled and left to survive on their own on the streets. They are competition for the older men. Very few (usually the Prophets sons but not always) are allowed to stay.
http://www.childbrides.org/boys.html
what happens to the expelled young bucks, I wonder?
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See my post #25 for a link.
They wander the periphery, and finnd mates from the apostate Mormon community
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Not always. Some do join the Mainstream LDS, but most end up on the streets involved in drugs and prostitution. Many also end up atheists.
BMTI
Agreed.
Better on the streets than the “muslim solution” - endless wars, and creative ways to blow up young boys. I’m waiting to see how China and India solve the “extra young men” problem...
It is just degree. Many of these young boys end up OD’ing on drugs, dying of AIDS, prostituting themselves and committing suicide all in the name of their false prophet.
IMO MELINDA FISCHER JEFFS really learned to keep it sweet. I don’t believe everything is so great on these compounds.
What with the way we keep hearing that Mormoms and muzzies seem to feel so comfortable with each others religions and that a muslim says of a Mormon preacher that if he closed his eyes, he'd think he was hearing an imam, that sounds like a fairly accurate assessment of the situation.
Just what we need. Shaking my head again.
That’s really sad. This is not a religion, but going back to some kind of primitive lion’s menagerie
Analogy: Let's say you have either a religious summer camp or a religious boarding school where minors have been abused, and the "dorm counselors" live "in-house" with the abused minors. Now let's say in this scenario, you have both "dorm counselors" who are the perps -- and most who aren't -- but they all knew about the realities of what was going on.
Now, do you think law enforcement folks are simply going to conclude that dorm counselor "moms" and dorm counselor "traditionally married couples" not directly guilty of the abuse are not going to be initially arrested or at least separated from the victims?? (Especially if all who was a victim in such a case was still to be sorted out?)
Here's the legal bottom line: Many of these people in TX, for the most part, were NOT living in wholly separate quarters from where the abuse was going on. Hence, authorities needed to at least temporarily separate them from the victims & potential victims until it was all sorted out.
The other likely conclusion is that you'd probably be hard-pressed to find another adult in that compound who didn't know about all or most of the cases of minor abuse going on there. (And you'll note you don't find law enforcement folks going after "traditionally married" couples who were complicit in this abuse or abuse cover-up...If you have knowledge of child sexual abuse, and don't act to uncover it, you are guilty before God -- and in many legal venues, before man).
Thus the *expels*. Not very many men either for so many women and children.
I’m afraid you’re wasting your keyboard skills and rationality on those two.
I’m quite proud that MY state stood up for those children and could care less what others think.
Don’t mess with Texas! AMEN!
Not even that many young boys... sad.
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