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Suit may destroy UEP Trust of FLDS
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Actually, these people need help. If this sick church crashes and these men are finally held accountable for their actions, they might have a chance.
You can only go on flaunting the law and living an immoral life for so long before it catches up with you. The day of reckoning eventually arrives. GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED. False prophets eventually destroy themselves.
I hope these people have a chance for a real life now. GO ELISSA!!!
I concur with the many writers on polygamy. In itself, it is not evil. Here in California it is now legal for two homosexuals (too nice a word) to marry, so what is wrong with polygamy? I laugh at the "Progresives" who suddenly love everything Islamofascist. Polygamy is part of the creed. Are we going to allow them to have serveral wives when they immigrate to this nation and say it is okay because it is part of their religion? But not the FLDS? It's coming, all you "deep thinkers," so start getting your excuses ready now.
By the way the FLDS bloggers come on here and spew hatred at her, I'm beginning to think that they are some of the perpetrators.
I guess you have to try everything to protect yourself
The people living in old Short Creek will need to move elsewhere and go out and get real jobs, just like in Texas. That will allow their children to experience other cultures. That will promote free will.
Even if none of the physical abuse charges are true, these people are indoctrinated religious extremists and their children are raised facing no choices in their future. Their futures are predetermined. That in itself is child abuse.
Religious extremism (and make no mistake - the FLDS are religious extremists) is never good for anyone but the leaders. And after generations, it's very hard to promote free will to the women and children. (Just look at the Middle East.)
The best way to promote freedom within the FLDS is by forcing them to join the rest of America in some fashion, so future generations can see that they in fact DO have choices. (If Sally gets to fall in love and choose her husband, why can't I. Hey, Bobby's going to State U, why can't I? etc)
But fair is fair. If Elissa is compensated to the degree she desires, what about others who have not even come forward yet? Or what about those who are not willing or able to come forward? Or what about the children living in those homes, whose parents earned them--are they to be homeless to compensate ONE young woman?
Let her go after Warren Jeffs, who required her marriage to her cousin. Let her go after her cousin if she wants to. I wouldn't argue with that. The courts can decide. But to harm a whole group of people for one's own benefit is selfish.
As a rape victim myself, money wouldn't begin to erase the trauma of what happened to me. Money isn't everything. It isn't really much of anything, when you come down to it.
Justice might be--but it's not justice to punish the innocent to get at the guilty.
Polygamy may be against the law, but all the members whose assets are in that trust have not been convicted of anything. It is illegal in America, and unjust, to punish unconvicted people.
what you fail to realize is that the money in the trust is no longer those people's money. It is the church trust's money. The FLDS parents GAVE IT AWAY, freely and purposely. If they wanted the money and the property, they should have kept it, not given it to the church.
It's another case of the FLDS parents being more concerned with the church than with their own family.
Perhaps someday they will realize that their family is more important than a church or a religion.
So maybe next time they are going to give something away, hopefully they will stop and think "hey - if I give it away, it's no longer mine. I see how it works now. Perhaps I should keep it for my family..."
It's not rocket science.
NO different here..... Maybe this will cause them to disband. If not, at least stop this crazy child bride practice.
There is a difference between a girl that gets pregnant against her parents' wishes, and while sneaking around, and an FLDS teen whose parents married her off before she was done growing up. It is the same difference between a kid who ties a bedsheet around his neck, tapes an "S" on his chest, and jumps off the roof and a kid whose parents shove him off the roof. Kids do stupid things. As parents, we are supposed to teach them better and stop them, not encourage the bad.
Elissa Wall was shoved off the roof, and the wealthy man who did it has all of his assets in the trust. I hope she gets the money.
I don't live in Utah--I've lived all over the country and seen the welfare ghettos and worked with the young adults who come from those backgrounds, and believe me, they are worse off in their abilities to function in the real working world than anybody else I know.
Our family chose a lifestyle that some of you would apparently consider "extremist" ourselves--we grew our own food organically, taught our children how to do many different sorts of work, encouraged them to have trades to fall back on, homeschooled or privately schooled. What did we get? Daughter who graduated from Ricks at 18, one son an MBA, another valedictorian of a well-known law school, a son commissioning in the Air Force as a pilot--one son still working in the building trades.
Extremist? Maybe, but successful, too.
I think you are wasting your breath. They don't actually know the meaning of civil rights, you understand that, right?
And the court system was and is used to promote civil rights (once the bigots were removed), which is what the Black Panthers were trying to promote. They were just going about it violently rather than civilly (as the great Mr. King did). Civil rights, a long hard battle which continues, are ignored within the FLDS.
As far as the Indians are concerned, nothing can fix what we did. Our shame will last for many more generations, as it should. They were free, and we enslaved them and took both their pride and their property. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.
If the FLDS were free, I'd be the first to say leave them alone. But "civil rights" is not even in their vocabulary.
As far as Allen being her 1st cousin, one would be hard pressed to find more than a handful of people in the FLDS who don't share a scintilla of the same DNA after hundreds of years of polygamous living. Certainly Warren Jeffs is a kook and a self-serving man. He should have to pay ALL of the people of the FLDS for all the grief he caused by spending their hard earned money on himself and seperating families like someone had died and left him GOD!
Just incredible!
the walls must come down
It's impossible for there NOT to be abuse. Impossible. I mean, think about it.
A guy has 3 wives and 25 kids. Any public discontent or rebellion reflects DIRECTLY on the husband/father and if it were to continue his punishment would be banishment and loss of family. He's not going to stick up for his family - he's going to do whatever is necessary to "get them in line". You can't get 30 people to strictly adhere to a repressive lifestyle without some abuse. It's impossible.
So even if these women are lying through their teeth, that doesn't mean there's no abuse. EVERY HOUSEHOLD of more than one wife or half a dozen children will INHERENTLY have abuse. It's impossible not to when you're enforcing a repressive lifestyle.
It's either that or be banished, and since the men aren't going to butt heads with the leadership, their family will bear the brunt.
So you can certainly say these women authors are lying. But don't offend our common sense by saying that there's no abuse. That's just not possible. It's self-evident.
And stop comparing the FLDS to common Texans or some bishop.
The Texans don't want their child to be pregnant, the FLDS parent does.
And some bishop molests some child, how would you lose your home? I don't know anyone that lost their home over the fiasco with Catholic priests.
How would that cause you to lose your house? Even the FLDS aren't losing their homes because of child abuse. They are losing their homes because they gave them away, so the home isn't even theirs anymore...
Amazing how that works, huh...
Virtually the entire sect is incapable of thinking for themselves, as victims of their reality - so don't say they chose their lot. The UEP & properties came from their sweat & earnings and should be divided up amongst them, with the dissolution of the so-called religion, which is a fascist dictatorship and thus should not be tolerated. The children should be monitored and made to go to non-FLDS schools. Prevent future abuse & brainwashing now.
Personally, I don't see a problem with polygamy if the parties involved all have free will (not perceived free will). Marrying and/or raping children is wrong in every conceivable way; Jeffs deserves more than 10 years for playing God - sending boys out to fend for themselves, treating women like cattle, rearranging families like they were trading cards, handing over little girls in slavery to men like they were merit bonuses...
Think twice before condemning Elissa, folks, lest you find yourself in similar circumstances one day!
Raw Video: NEBRASKA LAWMAKERS TAKE UP SAFE HEAVEN LAWS FOR [FLDS AND NON-FLDS SONS OF PERDITION]
(FOR FLDS AND NON-FLDS PARENTS WITH UNRULY TEENAGER CASES?)
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