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FLDS mother wins victory in court

Funny how Walther doesn't find it a conflict to be the one who issued the search and to preside over the aftermath, but does when a lawyer would represent a child AND its mother.

You call that a victory?...Heck let me have 100 bucks from you..and maybe if I feel good, I will let you keep 50 bucks of your money! Power of te State.

the way these folk are being treated is un-American

Did I miss a change in law? Because the woman is "under 21" the state will maintain control though the court will allow her to remain with the children. When did 21 become the new age of consent?

At least CPS admitted she is not a minor.

Okay, my high school junior sits in class with a boy (16) who brags about fathering 3 children with 3 girls and not having to pay child support because he is in high school and unemployed. My 10 year old could not have xrays until she signed a paper saying she is not pregnant because there are so many pregnant children (not teens, children under 13) in town.

Does anyone else see a double standard? If you are raised in a "cult" you can be taken from your family because you might "marry" at an unlawful age... But if you don't claim to be married, you can have as many babies as you want as young as you want as long as the daddy isn't too old.

Are the FLDS doing something wrong? I don't know because my only information has come from the news... But surely there must be a more reasonable way to look into this than taking EVERY child away. An 18 year old has her newborn taken away... Because the mother is too young? because she might influence her child? Oh come on.... What is this doing to these kids? I can't imagine, can you?

Why doesn't CPS just throw the Constitution out the window? This is not an America worth fighting for any longer. I am more ashamed of being a US citizen & Texan than all of my life. I would give up my citizenship to this pathetic so-called free country. We have no freedom any longer. We can not teach our children right and wrong by God's standards anymore because of hate crimes laws being passed. We can not live behind locked gates because then we are hiding something. In case the government hasn't noticed our lives are none of their business. My choice of religion if any is none of their concern. This has and is showing exactly what I have known all along and has become the terrorist organization themselves. They should figure there was no case here and just let it go but they are gonna make a bunch of single mothers instead,that is just what our society needs. Not!!!

It will probably take a revolution before these CPS are removed from power..."But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"...

I honestly believe that by allowing or supporting such actions, our government is no longer benevolent and is more harmful to us than it is beneficial. They have violated nearly all of the protections guaranteed by the Constitution.

I don't feel bad at all, if the court is looking at the FLDS community with a little more scrutiny. Its clear that there is SOME kind of sexual abuse of minors there. Look at all the underage mothers "married" to older perverts. As for the Jessop girl, what's so bad about the state checking up on her babies?

FLDS is not a licensed religion nor does it appear on the Texas Approved Religions list. Child Welfare is doing the right thing rescuing these children from an unapproved religion. Children should not be taught just any religion - it MUST be an Approved Texas religion.

There is a famous quote about changing the laws to get the Devil, and what are you going to do when the winds blow and they come for you.

What is wrong is that this could happen to any of us. Sure we don't like what the FLDS seem to be doing, but we must make sure that their rights are protected or else what are we going to do when the winds turn towards us.

So you won't feel bad when they take your child or grandchild because your neighbor's daughter is pregnant and both families are good friends and close?

"where girls grow up to become child brides, and boys grow up to become sexual perpetrators"

mmhhhh. Is this sentence describing the YFZ ranch or the perverted state of our so called modern society?

The CPS is beginning to become unglued. They decided that these young women were underage just by looking at them. Common sense may prevail.

The Land of the Free has become the Land of the Regulated where someone in a Government Agency decides what is acceptable for you & your family. Smacks of social communism to me. I quit fighting & moved out of the country to be free. China talks communism but does capitalism better than the U.S. now. My Chinese wife starts receiving her Chinese retirement pay (Social Security) when she turns 55. So who will have a better quality of life from the age of 55, her or me, who, in the U.S., has to work until 67 to retire. Health care as good, if not better, in Thailand & China. & won't break your what you've worked for to leave for your family. We own poperties in the U.S., Austria, Guam & China. I think we will end up in Thailand. In Thailand, for whatever your "Family" lifestyle is, do your job, don't talk bad about the King (anything else is OK), have fun. We quit fighting the U.S. Mega-Beaurocracy. We are gone to a place with a much higher average quality of life, where, if you are of legal age, your "Family" values don't matter to the government.

"approved religion"???? Have you read the first amendment? ALL religions are approved....the government is prohibited from the approval process in the United States Of America....if there must be an approval process...let Joseph Stalin handle that...he did a great job!!!

Approved Texas religion ???
Where is this list?? I need a copy so I can start my discrimination law suit!!

Not the entire community. Until we as American citizens stand up to the people we put in to office and tell them NO MORE! We have no one else to blame but ourselves for these actions being taken. This country is heading down a scary path and I hope we wake up soon . Watch the few that get what they want because they scream louder they we do. Just look at California.

So the FLDS is not a licensed religion nor does it appear on the Texas Approved Religions what does that mean. We need to have state approval of how we believe now. Texas is worse of then I thought before.

Apparently CPS can decide that pregnant woman might be a minor if she looks young, take that woman into custody until the baby is born, take the baby into custody, meanwhile demanding that woman prove she is not a minor.
I wonder if this only applies to FLDS or to the rest of us as well?