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Joyful reunion FLDS children can't get enough hugs as they join their mom
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If you think that way, why are you going by anonymous, rather than using a distinctive screen name?
And on the other hand...now there are women who were able to stay home and be with their kids because of the communal effort and now have to become single, working mothers. Is that better, CPS?
This sounds like a change in policy to me, it sounds like up to this point it was allowed.
What part of riding the perimeter of your property armed is "scarry". The last I looked, that was our legal right as Americans. If it's changed, we Montanans are really in trouble.
I also urge all concerned readers to join in the petition to rap Judge Walthers' knuckles. I am not FLDS, and I live in Florida, but I have joined the other signatories to the petition.
I see a couple of snippets of information over on the Salt Lake Tribune boards; one states that Judge Walthers was at the Grand Jury in Schleicher County to swear in the Grand Jurors. I think that any other involvement with the Grand Jury would have entailed a lot more than just one hour of Her Honor's time.
Another mentioned that there has been sexual abuse visited upon the FLDS children in foster care. Has anyone else heard or read of this outrage? If so, can you please provide a link?
Finally, I'd like to suggest to the FLDS parents that whether or not any abuse has been suspected or substantiated so far, please take your precious children to a medical facility NOW and have them checked for any indications of physical or sexual abuse. If substantiated, it will come in VERY handy later.
You'd think the 13-year-old daughter would give them pause --
But, then this /is/ Texas --
"since the natural ratio of men to women is 1:1, and since you live in a closed society that attracts VERY few new women, and since some of the men have a dozen or more wives ..."
One way out of your "box" is to marry young girls to older men (why does that sound familiar?).
Works like a Ponzi scheme.
If everyone has, say, ten kids (average: five daughters), then if you "marry down" two generations there are about 25 females for each (grandfather-age) male.
Works like a charm, as long as the population keeps growing.
How do you KNOW "Most of the mothers do not have an education and job prospects..." ??? You negative, gossipy people need to get a life.
as soon as the woman goes on an interview and tells someone that there's no such thing as dinosaurs, she's lost the job. Give any FLDS mother a standard SAT and they'd badly fail most history and logic sections.
The FLDS purposely keep their people stupid, so there is less chance of escape.
If you can't see it, then you need to get a life, cuz you're in denial. I'm continually amazed at how many people have blinders on here. (Or are FLDS - one or the other) Wait - now that I think about it.... It's probably both. FLDS has had blinders on for a century now....
However said, I cannot justify the practice of polygamy---either from FLDS people or the LDS church's history of it. Why? Because it's not biblically sanctioned by God and never was!
In the Old Testament days (the "old covenant") some people practiced it---but God never commanded a people to do it or sanctioned it. In the New Testament days (under the "covenant" ushered in by Jesus Christ), it was commanded, "one wife for one man."
Whenever God commands something in scripture, there is no confusion or "gray areas" about it---it's said plain and simple!
Polygamy is nothing more than a form of religious-scantioned adultery. Pedophilia and incest are sickening to behold!
Why would God command to do that which he has already said is immorality? Does He contradict himself?
Having said all this, the FLDS people are generally decent people. Get rid of the polygamy doctrine and they're probably better than most!
� zxcvbnm, 'Sarah' is a recurring name among the FLDS members. This 'Sarah' was 'spiritually married' to at least one man twice her age. She has at least one other child, possibly by a 'spiritual husband' she was reassigned to.
� The appeals courts found there wasn't sufficient evidence to remove all the children from their alleged parents. That is far different from saying the trial court did not find any evidence at all.
� One cannot adhere to the teachings of Warren Jeffs and not break the law. Indeed, it is possible to 'test' whether a member of the FLDS has really changed by asking about him. If the person gives the "He is perfect to me," spiel, that person is still brainwashed and not opposed to child abuse.
Anyone concerned about whether the child abuse will continue should be asking the kind of questions I have.
No one knows. Some have written books trying to say they know, but none really know.
What you need to do is look into your heart for what God commands. And I guarentee you He doesn't want you to hide from a world that He created, and He wouldn't want you to keep your children from finding their rightful place in the world.
So stop pretending that you know, and let your children be free to choose their path. That's how you can truly give back to God for all he has given you....
Yes, we could do without teaching children about god, then as adults they would be truly free to choose.
"In the Old Testament days (the "old covenant") some people practiced it---but God never commanded a people to do it or sanctioned it. In the New Testament days (under the "covenant" ushered in by Jesus Christ), it was commanded, "one wife for one man."
Whenever God commands something in scripture, there is no confusion or "gray areas" about it---it's said plain and simple!"
Why did God give a pass to Abraham and Jacob for practicing polygamy then? The twelve tribes of Israel descended from Jacobs four wives and that means Christ is a descendant of polygamists since Mary was also Jewish. If God had condemned polygamy then why did Christ come through a line of polygamists? If God is unchangeable, how could polygamy be permitted in the OT and then later revoked in the NT. The answer to that question is God can command and revoke anytime he sees fit.
False prophets..real prophets.......or we prophets unto ourselves. Chose your prophet.
I chose to read, interpret, and live my life as an individual/ I have help from my church when I ask for it(Catholic).
When I meet God he and or she will decide how good a job I have done in interpreting his-her wishes.
In the meantime I don't need government interfering in the communication and or interpretation.
This country acknowledged my God given right to worship as I please....now leave me alone to worship. Caesar is dead...we chose our own path.
This article clears up a few things. First, obviously, not all the mothers are or were underage! Sarah was 24 when she had her first child. I was only 20, when I had my first of six children! When I went to the Navy Hospital in Charleston to plan my pre-natal care, with my third pregnancy, at the age of 24, the Corpsman thought I was only 15! Looks can be deceiving. CPS would do well to stop guessing ages, and start believing documents, such as those birth certificates, driver's licenses, and tax forms that these mothers gave them. That might have avoided some of this mess, and some of the embarrassment. It's things like this that make CPS look silly. Second, apparently these women are not all just mindless Step-ford wives, with no education. It took some training and experience for Sarah to be an RN, and to be hired as an ER nurse.
I wish the best for Sarah, her family, and other families that are now together again.
I'd hate to be 14 year old living in that life. Male or Female.
If it's a willing, nonforcible choice why are brides in their mid to late teens at their first forever marriage?
How many adults, hadn't been adults when they were first married?
Why do they have no birth records, why didn't the children know their mother's? Why did they lie about their names? Why did so many refuse the DNA? So they can make it difficult to prosecute. That's why.
Why was there any teen pregnancy with a "mom" in each room with several bunkbeds for the kids; some of which were hers and others not? How is that not communal living?
My best friend got married when she was 17. It was her choice. She has 5 beautiful children and is totally happy and fulfilled as a mother. Several of my close childhood friends were married before age 18 ( I have never been married) and have large families. It should be a personal decision.
I think the seizure of these kids opened up a door we do not want opened. People can;t even spank their kids in public anymore. And now kids are being taken from their parents for no good reason. It's ludicrous.
By the way , how do treat a woman in US..? Just ponder and then you may speak against others.
Mind you first sweep in your own doors.
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