Reader comments: Texas loses another court battle with FLDS family
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I hope the FLDS and the YFZ residents in particular can make a simple goal: live within the law. In particular this means that where there is a legal monogamous marriage, the parents must approve and the bride must be 16 or older.
If there is no legal marriage (polyg household), the young women must be 17 or older to have sex.
That is Texas law (as I understand it) and if they abide by this I think much of the harrassment will come to an end.
I shudder to imagine what these 430 children are going through in their state custody.
Dad
Few people here have argued marrying 16 year-olds is right. More people have argued or seemed to argue 13-year-olds having sex with each other is OK. These people consistently ignore the strong evidence that most pregnant 13 and 14 year olds in this country were inpregnated by men who were at least 20.
However my only point is, you can not punish someone for doing something that is not right but is legal. Also, you can not violate people's rights for a higher good. This is why deprogramming was discredited and this is why Texas is failing in the courts. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Also interesting that I got married at barely 17 to a man 23--that's 6 years older than I was. And I am not and never have been FLDS. Had my first child at 18. I was a high school graduate who completed a 2 year college degree while I was still 17 and I certainly considered myself grown-up. I wouldn't recommend such early marriage, but I don't know that I would consider my husband a sexual predator either.
Or the even more common saying from hard lessons learned in carpentry, “Measure twice, cut once.”
The basic idea is that taking one’s time to get it right is often, in fact almost always better than charging into situations that are poorly understood. Especially when the situation involves 462 children.
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