Heck, even without bringing in the issue of statutory rape and bigamy, what we have had collected over at least the last 2 decades is repeated interviews with women who escaped the FLDS and stated that neither their marriages or the subsequent sex was consensual. When “brides” are crying at their “wedding” and begging not to have to go through with it, something is terribly wrong. I won’t even mention how the girls described their “wedding night”.
While people may (and in these threads have) argue that the laws against polygamy and the age of consent laws are arbitrary, nobody can rationally argue that actual consent is arbitrary.
I am giving people the benefit of the doubt that they just aren’t as familiar with the FLDS as many of us are.
After the shooting at the Amish schoolhouse, the parents and families of those who died reached out in the spirit of Christian forgiveness to the widow of the shooter. It was well documented. The Amish live a G-d centered, faith inspired life. They are on another planet compared to what those who have escaped FLDS have described.