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FLDS official: No more underage marriages; reunifications begin with the children

Thank You, Lord. Thank you, Judge Walther. Thank you, attorneys for the FLDS, for your fine work and for standing your ground. Thank you, FLDS, for your faith and courage in eduring these outrages. Thank you, Ben Winslow, for your fantastic reporting job in this whole mess.

Remove the abusing dads.

I still think the judge should be removed....

It will be a wonderful thing for those children to hug their moms & dads.
Thank you FLDS for your example of courage and dignity in the face of tyranny.
May God bless you all.

Texas....can you spell BANKRUPTCY?
refusing to remove/arrest molesting fathers is a true miscarriage of justice.

Thank you God.

I'm grateful the children can start their healing process. I pray that people will stop judging these people, even the fathers and Warren Jeffs until they know all the facts and they probably won't get them unless they care more.

Thank heavens. This has been a travesty from the beginning. Now they will do what they should have done 2 months ago look into child abuse and not cause mass trauma of children based on a few allegations.

Are we remembering that most of these parents have not been found guilty of anything, and that their illegally stolen children have been found to be healthy and unabused except possibly for five girls ( if they aren't actually 20+ year olds that the CPS is just claiming are children . . .)?

I'm glad the parents are getting their children back, but someone needs to look into why the court can require "parenting classes" for people who have, if anything, been proven innocent by the failure of this witch-hunt to find anything against the vast majority.

(BTW, I'm not FLDS and don't understand why anyone is, but I believe in laws that are designed to protect children and parents from governmental abuse.)

This judge has no business interpreting any law or arbitrating any agreement. Google gopetition walther.

Are you kidding me? You are glad those kids are going home to be groomed for more abuse?
Wow!
Come to dixie, get to know these people.. Your mind would change..

Texas did the right thing..

Thank you, Judge, for FINALLY following the law.
Now, if the FLDS will abide by conditions they have agreed to, perhaps the truth will be established and genuine abuses will cease. And, hopefully, the trying of this issue by accusations in the media will cease, too.
And, hopefully, the FLDS will look seriously at their doctrine and determine the difference between doctrine and practices and traditions that may have been instituted by men--some of them highly questionable.

Fathers molesting their kids. That's one false accusation that not even the trigger-happy Texas CPS have made.

Bruce, one thing for sure we can be thankful for... Warren Jeffs wont be hugging these children !

bibo

After two months there are still NO SPECIFIC CHARGES of ANYTHING against ANYONE; the authorities removed a lot of stuff from the YFZ ranch not to mention that they claim to have had an informant in there for the last FOUR YEARS.

There has been no charges, no grand jury indictments; NOTHING.

It's just a bunch of bigots making life miserable for some small, weird sect WHO HAVE A RIGHT TO BE THIS WAY.

Yeah, let's all go back to the claim tha the the removed children had a rate of broken bones 18 times higher than the national average; that "tidbit" was released to the press to great fanfare; it never went anywhere because it was a LIE!

The pregnancy rate of very young girls on the ranch was another beaut; even if it was so, it doesn't mean that 50 year old men are the fathers and it's still WAY lower than just about any other group you can statistically profile.

This whole mess is precisely what it is, a witch hunt, promulgated by people who don't like the FLDS and want to use temporal authority to punish them simply because of what they are.

This isn't over by a long shot, but this is the first actual step in the right direction that we have seen since the whole debaucle started in April!

Of course she signed on. Based on the Supreme Court ruling, those were the only conditions she was permitted to request.

The charges are coming and some of Warren's child-raping buddies will be joining him in the Texas Bars and Grills.

NOBODY has a RIGHT to be a pedophile!!!

I grew up in orphanages, foster homes and eventually on the street, all of which were terrible environments for child. I was molested, beat and emotionally abuses. I am not a member of the FLDS faith, but this is America, we are guaranteed freedom of religion, and the countenance of those children and mothers was evident that they were happy and healthy. I would bet we are not going to hear stories of attempts to convert the children to protestant faiths and unfortunately, more serious abuse.

Thanks, great comment. Totally agree!