An update.
ELDORADO - The children taken from the Mormon splinter sect compound were housed Saturday at Eldorado’s community center and the First Baptist Church fellowship hall, sleeping on donated cots and eating food dropped off by Eldorado residents.
The food was cooked by Sutton County Steak House of Sonora, about 20 miles south of Eldorado.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stays in seclusion, eating food grown at the compound and minimizing contact with the outside world - the extent of which became apparent as the children sampled what the steakhouse had to offer, said owner Linda Love.
“They didn’t even know what a steak finger was,” she said. “They’re singing songs. So happy and sweet and precious. It’s heartbreaking.”
Church volunteers and Eldorado residents bought diapers and food supplies from the local Super S Food Store, dropped off bottles of water and wheeled cases of soda in shopping carts. Some came in hopes of volunteering, but signs on the door to the fellowship hall said officials only accepted donations.
Many church members and officials were helping Friday and Saturday, said Shea Politte, whose husband, Sylas, is the First Baptist Church youth minister and helped coordinate the church’s efforts in providing buses and supplies.
Politte declined to give specifics about the church’s new tenants.
“I don’t want to jeopardize their rights,” she said. “They have more now.”
O.K. I admit I don’t even know what a steak finger is. Sounds disturbing.
“O.K. I admit I don’t even know what a steak finger is. Sounds disturbing.”
I served many a steak finger and gravy when I worked for Dairy Queen.
My memory of it, is that it is a fast food bag of pieces of tenderized round steak that is breaded and deep fried, I think they were about 3” long and an inch wide.
They are like chicken nuggets, except they are beef, and you dip them into gravy instead of the chicken nugget sauces.
In some cases, the children may have escaped the frying pan only to land in the fire. Animal products such as deep-fried steak fingers, dairy products such as Vermont cheese, and particularly processed foods such as are usually available at 'Super S' convenience stores are known to cause heart disease, stroke and dementia in the 80% of Americans whose diet consists predominantly of such foods high in acrylimides & hopelessly low in nutrients per calorie.
I certainly hope that evidence of abuse on the compound is substantiated or, relatively, the kids may be worse off in the steak house than they were on the compoound...at least nutritionally.
No doubt, however, that the kids are NOT facing the dire threats of imminent incarceration that they would be facing if Hillary & Bill were back in the White House...
Here's the beginning...
Living the Principle: Short Creek 1953
Just before dawn on July 26, 1953, more than 120 Arizona police officers descended on Short Creek in what then Gov. Howard Pyle called "a momentous police action against insurrection." They found residents of the polygamist community, who had been tipped off about the raid, gathered at the schoolhouse, singing. In days that followed, families were lined up outside their homes and photographed.