Put ME in coach!
Posted on 04/06/2008 5:27:22 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Yes it does justify it.
The young news reader on radio sounded overjoyed to call this ‘another Waco.’ What are they teaching in schools these days that would produce such a statement?
The bus comment was made since I believe that it’s the government’s business to handle the matter from top to bottom. As I said before, many of the members of the group probably are good and decent people. Southern Baptists have over the years had problems with Jews, Roman Catholics, blacks and most recently Mormons (Huckster’s comments for Mitt Romney’s ears). As a RC, I’d prefer to witness through silence or in this case leave this squarely in the hands of the government.
Put ME in coach!
It poped up on a Google search but I posted the version you have linked in my Post 38. That appears to be the latest and greatest. Looks to me like they ammend the code about two times a year.
I now know what YFZ stands for.
Yearning For Zion Ranch.
LOL. Thats just funny.
An update.
ELDORADO, Texas - A helicopter hovered over the FLDS compound in West Texas late Saturday and ambulances were on the ground as a SWAT team peacefully entered and left the sect’s temple, considered sacred by believers.
During the past three days, state child welfare investigators have removed more than 183 boys, girls and women from the compound four miles north of downtown Eldorado for questioning about their well-being.
The action followed a report Monday by a 16-year-old girl who alleged she had been physically abused.
Preceded by officers, child-protection investigators went building to building at the YFZ Ranch.
By late afternoon, authorities were unsure if the 16-year-old girl was among those taken from the ranch, leading them to insist on going into the temple to look for her, Allison Palmer, an assistant attorney in the 51st District Court, told the San Angelo Standard-Times on Saturday.
As they expected, officers met with resistance by the FLDS, who believe nonbelievers should not enter the temple.
“In preparing for entry to the temple, law enforcement is preparing for the worst,” Palmer said. They want to have “medical personnel on hand in case this were to go in a way that no one wants.”
The officers declined to speak about the matter because a judge earlier issued a gag order. Contacted by phone,
Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran said, “I can’t talk. We’re in the middle of a mission here.”
The SWAT team entered the temple at about 10:45 p.m. CDT, secured the building in about 5 minutes, then moved on to check another building.
About an hour earlier, a school bus carrying child-protection investigators and more women and children came out of the compound headed to the First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall in Eldorado.
At the side of the road near the ranch, an FLDS man sat in his truck, unable to re-enter the property. He had been waiting all day.
“It’s gut-wrenching,” said the man, who declined to give his name. “It’s not in my hands. It’s up to a higher power.”
He said he has a family at the compound, but hadn’t heard anything from them. “I don’t know what’s going to happen. My stomach is just in knots.”
The girl allegedly gave birth to a child at age 15, that is the crux of their argument. She would have to at the latest been 15 when she became pregnant, making it rape no matter what because she is younger than the law of consent.
If a girl gets married at 14 does it allow for an older man to have sex at that age also? I am just curious, the two don’t have to go hand in hand when the law is concerned.
That is silly. Elections are held in churches all the time! There is nothing wrong with moving these people with church buses.
That is the PC way of looking at things. Yes Baptists have had issues with those you mentioned.
That doesn’t mean this church does.
I doubt very seriously if any of these deviant perverted cultists applied for any marriage licenses for any of these polygamist marriages.
Maybe you should study a little more.
Oh, dear...
Jesus' papa is God and mama is Mary, a virgin.
"Study your scriptures!"
Good advice, try it.
Obviously, this present child was NOT his first or legal wife.
The suspect now denies even knowing the girl.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8827761
Hmmm... I wonder if he has ever heard of DNA or paternity testing?
ROTFL...I SEE what you did, ;)
I agree. I'm starting to suspect their true motivation behind this raid on the sect. I sure hope cooler heads will prevail so we don't end up with another Camp Davidian assault and massacre.
That is probably where they keep their sacred mormon undies.
I guess that makes it RAPE.
Hmmm... I wonder if he has ever heard of DNA or paternity testing?
With all the incest going on in these cults, I suspect that it would be impossible to pinpoint the father.
Can you imagine growing up as young girl in Utah in the 1850's to 1890's? This compound is a slice of what life must have been like.
Huh?
Jesus was also the descendant of a prostitute. Does that make prostitution ok?
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