Posted on 04/17/2008 10:12:04 PM PDT by Howdy there
I don’t know enough to say. If the worst allegations are true then this stuff is very very wrong.
But in 1950 or so they did virtually the same thing and took the kids and the women away and put the kids in foster homes and tried some of the men....same group more or less FLDS...a Jessop offshoot and within two years they had mostly all gone back to the commune when they could.
Life did a story on it called the Lonely Men of Short Creek with nearly the same crimes alleged but the media was more skeptical of the government that time around.
I always ask someone to reconcile this with Brigham Young, Smith and others but they never do. Never. I cannot see how this is any different than what they did. Were they pederasts too? Were their women brainwashed too?
man...what mess....don’t get me wrong, it’s strange stuff what they do but I’d sure like a lot more clarification all around
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