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[big_blue_21]

[Zaria32]

No_hite_pls...

From a reading of much of what's been written lately, the group in Texas are very hard working, completely self-supporting, and take 0 government help, so your fears of your tax dollars going to them can be allayed.

Although I find their lifestyle abhorrent, I don't see that the abuse of underage girls (and apparently this very rarely, rather than frequently, happens) through forced marriage means that there is "imminent danger" of physical abuse to 1) boys, and 2) girls who are, say, 6 months or 3 years old. There's been zero evidence of any sort of child abuse other than the forced "marriage." But it was this "imminent" danger that the state of Texas used to seize more than 400 children.

Texas child welfare workers also, for weeks, refused to accept certified documents such as birth certificates, and commonly accepted documents such as driver's licenses, as proof of the age of some of the "underage" wives who turned out to be as old as 27.

To separate nursing babies of 6 or 7 months from their mothers, and place them as far as 9 hours driving time (Texas is a very big state) from the forced location of the mother (I mean forced in the sense that the mother is told "you will stay in this place or we won't permit you to visit your baby") is abusive on the part of the state. One woman had 8 children, and they were placed so far apart that it took her days to visit them all. Again, Texas is a very big state.

I've lived in many states, including California, Montana, South Carolina, North Carolina, New York, and 13 years in Texas. I've never lived anywhere that treated citizens of the state in as high-handed a manner as does Texas.

Again, I find the lifestyle of this religious group abhorrent, but absent the apparently much exaggerated incidence of forced early marriage, there is absolutely nothing that has been alleged against them ... certainly not any other form of child abuse.

Yes, I do indeed believe the leaders or those involved in forced early marriage should be charged, tried, and if juries agree with the prosecutor, convicted and punished.

However, I believe that members of this organization have the right to pursue and live life according to their beliefs... I believe that the seizing of the great majority of these children is abuse on the part of the state.

[Len8]

The original founder of the group was a charlatan from what I have heard. He has been in jail for some time now, but it is hard to believe that an organization founded on dubious circumstances could so flourish.

[aboxofchocolates]

[Zolt]

[Underwaterbob]

Would not widespread polygamy significantly shrink the gene pool? How is this good for us as a species in the long run?

[Justin Hale]

[aboxofchocolates]

[Medic]

So why do these outfits flourish. Is it due to a form of brainwashing? Was the Georgetown, British Guyana mob based on the same kind of mind manipulation. How about the Moonies here in korea? Is there a need in our natures that only these outits can provide.

The founder of the group was the father of Jeffs apparently, and he had beautiful young girls as his wives. Girls must have been brought up since childhood to accept the life style lock stock and barrel. Parents of the girls mustn't have objected either, or they were forcebly removed from the parents.

The township in the Utah Colorado border where they are originally from is owned by the group and is worth over $100 million.

Deprogramming would pretty much be impossible for most of them, and yet some personalities are susceptible to cults like these. Still some find the strength to break away and do their own thing.

[Cornfed]