Comments about ‘167 kids taken in Texas raid’

I was wondering when they were going to crack down on this!

I feel so bad for the kids, this is horrifice. I hope that everything goes well and everyone gets back safely to their families.

Please don't be bigots! If there is abuse found (I mean abuse, not marriage) prosecute. But don't believe the bull that we (even Warren Jeffs) sanction abuse. We DON'T!

CPS is the most evil organization to ever exist in this America. I am sure Satan was looking down with a smile on his face as he saw those shiny police cars roll out of the complex with these peoples stolen children.

I highly doubt they were being abused and even if they were it is unprecedented to remove 167 children from one community because of unfound allegations. This is religious intolerance and it is bigoted and driven by prejudice at best. These actions were no more about protecting the innocent than was WACO. Unfortunately, the era of the climate is that most people looked on in glee as they heard news that this religious sect was being punished once again. To those people I say, just wait 'til it shows up at your doorstep. This is a slippery slope indeed.

Too bad our own attorney general Mark Shurtleff doesn't have the guts to give these kids the same protection here in Utah.

that some law officials decided to get those kids out of there. I really hope they can be placed with real loving and caring families and try to have a normal life.

I'm confused. Texas law allows a 16yr old to marry with consent of a parent, so why would a marriage between the 50yr old male and the 16yr old female be cause for an investigation?

Also, I find it disturbing that the police blocked the roads leading to the compound and that the air space around the ranch was restricted. We should never allow the police to operate in secrecy that way. Who is responsible for preventing the media access to cover this story, and why aren't the media up in arms over it?

I don't understand the use of the First Baptist Church buses. Why not real, secular buses? School buses, for example.
What is the excuse for using the Baptist buses?

And please don't say because they were available or volunteered. This is a criminal action and as such the FBC buses should not have been used. The police do not have the funds to rent secular buses?

Something fishy here.

Yes, I am a Christian, but the buses should not have been from a denomination. Wrong. The buses should have been secular, school buses, etc.

From every child abused in this way...... THANK YOU.

Looks like the Texans aren't nearly as tolerant of plural marriage as we are here in Utah.

Here it is, folks. 1953 Raid on Short Creek (modern day Colorado City, AZ and Hildale, UT) all over again! And, like that time, it will prove once again to be a public relations nightmare for the governments involved. Few men will be arrested, tiny if any jail time for them, and who will suffer the most??? The women and children who will be farmed out, forcefully and against their wills, around the state and within 18 months, every last one of them will be back together again with their husbands/fathers putting the pieces back together again! Where they wanted to be all along in the first place!!!

Idiots! Power mongers! Hypocrits!

Just ONE MORE INSTANCE of RAPED BY THE STATE!!!

James Justice
Religious Freedom Fighter

What do Deseret News has to use "Fundamentalist LDS Church", can't they use something other than "LDS"?

I have been waiting for something like this to finally happen. The children there are abused, hassled, made to be mature at an immature age, and filled with silly doctrines. I am glad those children were removed. Each will have a chance at a normal, sexually free life, free from the FLDS church.

I believe religions should be able to practice their beliefs, but inhumane treatment cannot be ignored.

why wasn't this under LDS News?

Love the photo showing a First Baptist Church bus involved in the raid. The article says the bus was "commandeered", but the Baptist angle is appropriate.

The FLDS made a mistake by moving to Texas. Most Texans are Christian and aren't as likely to look the other way when it comes to polygamy like folks in Utah are.

So who will be first to speculate on the use of Baptist church buses to transport these kids. Hmmmmm.

One alleged accusation of so-called "abuse", and they apparently take all the girls from an entire religious community.

This is a completely ILLEGAL move by the US government to deny freedom of religion and persecute those that resist humanist Progressivism. These government officials will now force their
religion of Progressivism on the girls.

Note the article says they were in an "insular" community. They were insulated from the current culture. The bible plainly says do not be of the world, do not live like the world.

Open your home to foster children.

167? From a compound of 150 people total? Other news reports are stating that 52 kids were removed.

I'm glad to see Texas officials moving in and giving these kids a chance to get away from a life of brainwashing and abuse.

I'm surprised Texas didn't bring in the tanks, fire bombs, and loud speakers like during Wacco.