[Hildy]

WHat is so unusual about religious people performing charity by giving work to people? It happens EVERY DAY. If you lived in a sheltered community, part of a church family that was never touched by crime, maybe you would try to help out people less fortunate than yourself and think it is a lesson for your children, not a danger. Yes, it is naive, but you don't know anything about the life experiences of the Smarts. And unfortunately, they learned the hard way.

[wardaddy]

Bump!

[myrabach]

I don't think that Salt Lake City is exactly a sheltered community. They may not have the level of crime I enjoy here on the east coast, but it is far from being sheltered. I can appreciate that people want to teach family values that include charity. But you don't have to be too bright to know about evil people who will endanger that very same family.

Secondly, I understand Mitchell is an excommunicated LDS, in which case, I believe the Smarts would be forbidden from dealing with him.