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It's about time the kids saw that not everyone wears longjohns and full-length dresses in the middle of summer. And that it's a big world out there and they DON'T have to spend their lives hiding from it.
Their parents may be teaching them good morals and to be polite, but they aren't teaching them to be ethical (they are taught to lie) and they aren't teaching them how to survive outside of their little world. Pretty much makes them prisoners in fancy clothes.
And you're worried about them seeing real people in regular clothes? wow...
How on Earth can YOU claim to have a CLUE regarding their futures - 10 years from now, 20 years from now? What, exactly please, wil they eat for lunch next Tuesday? You can't tell me that, really, can you?
Was it your Quija Board that Judge Walthers used, or what?
Those mothers that didn't return were advised by their attorneys to avoid the ranch. They have to continue to jump thru CPS hoops.
The choices they make are still colored by the whims of the State looking over their shoulder and the constant knowledge that the state can open their door at will.......sure isn't a free choice now is it.
Not convicted of a crime but treated as a criminal.......
They won't be many things, simply because they don't have the tools and they have been isolated their entire lives. Most aspects of the world are off limits to them - not unlike women in Saudi Arabia. What about this do you not understand?
So is ANY large family unacceptable to your liberal ideology?
Fact - Some people do not denigrate women for having many children. Some people actually consider motherhood a noble profession, even if others, like you RC, consider it a dead end job. Michelle Duggar announced on the Today Show that she was expecting her 19th child. Her uterus is her business. The same applies to the FLDS women.
You pretend to believe that the FLDS are isolated, but ignore the fact that the attempted 2nd raid was a response to the knowledge that not all children were present at the first raid. Do not continue lying or seek mental health care from pathological lying RC. As you well know by now, women do have choices and professional careers even if you do not consider an RN, EMT, teachers, or other tasks as noble professions.
Seriously, I wish I could express myself in my posts as well as you do - I look forward to reading your thoughts - please keep them coming.
Mothers, specifically stay-at-home mothers, perform a great service to their families and to society. Mothers work hard and that work, and their role, is often undervalued. But I believe deeply that the work that women do, and mothers do, deserves respect. They deserve fidelity from their spouse; they deserve the validity of a marriage license. They are not sub-human; they are not property. A woman who decides to have children puts herself in a vulnerable position � in doing so she earns the rights that legal marriage provide her. To say that women can be �assigned� and �reassigned� to men, to deny them education sufficient to support themselves, to withhold basic human rights to her and her children, to allow her to be given, at a young age, to a man to be raped, DEGRADES women, and makes a mockery of the traditional values of our society.
In this country, we have hundreds of "traditional values" coming from hundreds of different immigrants that form our society.
Specifically who's traditional values are you speaking of??
Your values may not be my values nor do I expect them to be.
The traditions found in Italian Boston are different than those same values of the Italian community in Chicago. My ancestors from Germany have a variety of traditional values that don't fit all Germans. For instance, I wear my wedding ring on my right hand, a German tradition from my father and his father before him.
Tradition and values change all the time. Don't try to fit your traditions on someone else it won't work.
I don't agree with polygamy or FLDS wacky beliefs, but the constitution protects us all from oppressive govt. Just because you don't like the way someone lives doesn't give you the right to destroy their lives. Thank you founding fathers!
I'm not saying that everyone has to have the same customs or values - but societies set limits. We define what we think is acceptable and what isn't. Those values can change (civil right movement), and people don't always agree (death penalty). But even the founding fathers didn't have a "do whatever you want" policy.
America has traditionally placed a high value on marriage and family - those are the values I'm speaking of.
The values that say that a woman has a right to choose her own mate - not be "assigned" and "reassigned" like property. That we don't rape teen-age girls. That we value and provide education and allow people the right to self determination.
CPS workers have the power of the state, and therefore have more responsibility. No citizenry should accept such abuse of power, with underlings just claiming "I was just following orders."
The organization as a whole, because of their agency status, bears the total brunt of ALL of the wrongs done under its name."
What a lie!
Please stop with the outright lies already. The kids were picked up by their parents... end of story. All the rumors of over a 100 "extra" parentless kids were false. I am so tired of reading CPS propaganda.
P.S. Where you cheering on the social workers and the prosecution when the McMartin case was going on? They were found not guilty too (but only after the most expensive criminal trial in USA history, all started by the allegations of a (literally) schizophrenic woman. You people need to stop seeing abuse where it doesn't exist, and look into your own black hearts.
FLDS marriages may indeed be arranged, but that does not mean it is done so without request by the female for such an arrangement. Arranged does not mean forced. Males are also "victims" since they too have arranged marriages.
Do you know that FLDS have dances? I know, shocking how much garbage you were fed.
Bartleby compares living outside FLDS to drug abuse and says "once corrupted, you choose corruption." Well, are FLDS parents sooo bad that they can't raise decent children without isolating them from everything? That's pathetic. Learn to raise good children instead of hiding them. If you can't do that, then you aren't very good at parenting, which begs the question of why you have so many children if you are incapable of raising them...
G says I am against large families. Where do you get that? My immediate family is over 50 people. Large familes are great! Women being stay-home moms are great - mine was a stay-home mom. But she didn't hide us from the world, and she raised fine children.
If you can't handle parenting, don't have so many children. Hiding them from the world isn't parenting - it's the cowards way out. You're simply afraid they may choose a different path and you will lose "followers".
"FLDS parents protect their children from the evils of a decadent society".
That's living in paranoia. That's living scared. That's not living at all. They are not "protecting" their children - they are raising them (and I use the word loosely) to be afraid of the world.
Yes - they will grow up just like their parents. You think that's great - I think it's a crime. It means they will not be their own person, finding their own way. They will be clones.
You may want that for your kids, but I'd rather mine have free will and a mind of their own. What a concept.
Imagine the world being just FLDS. How boring. Yet thats what you are promoting for these kids. Now I understand why they do it - because if they didn't, they wouldn't have any followers. But why you would do it, or approve of it for your kids, is beyond me.
Besides, I am talking about the YFZ ranch, not so much Utah or Arizona. At least there they can walk down the street and leave. No one was getting out of YFZ. Thats just wrong. No free will. Prison.
If not, that's probably why we aren't admonishing the Amish.
I got that from your post at 6:05 PM on 5 June.
The specific quote was:
"They will be either pregnant with many children, or they will be "married" to many women."
The context was regarding where the FLDS kids will be in 10, 20, or 30 years from now. It would appear from your remark that there is something wrong with adults in a state of being "pregnant...with many children".
That is why I thought that.
One thing we agree on is that the world is a BIG place. People have a lot of different ways of living their lives. I think it's best that people that disagree with one group or another don't try to draft laws about what their children can be taught.
Or else in another hundred years society will be like some dystopian SF novel where children are all raised by the state.
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