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Utah Attorney General's Office wants more meetings with FLDS
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Most of us around here exist today because somebody in our family tree also had similar beliefs.
The morals of our society are sometimes the only things that separate us from the animals.
on the guilty untill proven innocent side of this coin.
And while you at it, maybe meet with all the gays and lesbos before you start a unlawfull seizure of human beings.
Why does the state of Utah even care who marrys who?
If they are of age what business is it of the State
Goverment.
Oh now I remember, arrest and inprison all people
who want to smoke weed rather than drink or smoke
tabacco.
Again a prime example of how goverments try to eliminate freedoms.
Why does the Goverment have any right to tell me what
I can or cannot do in my home. Marry whom I want and as many times as I want. Teach my children what I feel is right and wrong.
Hey don't worry I don't want to have sex with underage girls,boys or dogs.
At least the barn door has been closed after the proverbial cow has escaped.
It looks like the only person that may have been "molested" was the 12 year old in the photo with Jeffs. The girl is now 16 and Jeffs is in prison.
So if the gossip is true and if girls were taken as brides and if the kiss was more than a kiss and if there are no more underage brides the whole rotten mess falls on the head of a man already in prison.
Super.....so now both sides can meet once a quarter over coffee and donuts and talk about the weather.
I bet Texas will continue to persue charges, rack up millions more in legal expenses and put Jeffs in a Texas prison just to show that they are "tough on crime".
In the meantime the FLDS will continue to practice their religion and wait till the girls consent to consumate their spiritual unions at 17....everyone goes away happy.
But just to spice things up, Hildrbrand has said that he has another series of laws targeting the FLDS ready for the next Texas legislative session in January.
We better get going, we're going to need to build a LOT more prisons.
Certainly forced underage marriages are illegal and should be prosecuted. Given that Texas found 20 possible examples of underage marriage (five of the females were still children), one can only guess that maybe there are 300 FLDS cases involving statutory rape, most of them being in Utah and Arizona.
Even if this is reigned in by legal action or by the FLDS, it is still disturbing watching girls being raised in a culture that teaches them to accept forced marriage at 18 years-old, especially when it involves marriage to an old man.
One has to wonder what if anything is going on down in Texas. Has the opposition to the seizure of FLDS cowed law enforcement into not doing anything? Is Texas still deciding under what conditions to prosecute polygamy? Is the delay due to a decision to issue arrest warrants all at the same time, like arrest warrants for a drug ring?
You call this mess a higher species. One that kills it self daily, eats all other animals it see's fit.
Uses biolodical weapons upon it self will incarceration of millions simply for consuming
a common weed/herb. Wow what a great species
You mean in a country that dropped a atomic bomb
on innocent people. That I should be proud when
even the own laws arent obeyed by the goverment.
Iran/Contra ring any bells.
If you think for one minute that I feel any remorse
at the fact that I will support any persons right to choose what they do in there own home, I do not.
The same reasons that the United States was founded apply today. Intolerance and the erosion of the financial freedoms will destroy our way of life.
Taxation to a point of theft is now at hand.
Goverment interferance into our daily life is
alive and well (CPS). All under the color of law.
I for one hope some extraterestials show up and tell
us all the Religon is just a myth and that we have to focus on making this world better.
Good luck on the Higher species idea.
Then, let's talk about everyone who has ever smoked marijuana or imbibed in any other controlled substance 'unlawfully'. They also should go to prison.
All of these acts are 'illegal'. Why stop at polygamy you bigots?
A few people say the government should prosecute these men for living polygamy, since polygamy is illegal. The only problem is nobody is living polygamy according to the law. These men have one wife. The rest are mistresses, or girl friends, or whatever they want to call them. Only the first woman has a marriage license. For it to be polygamy, all the women must have a marriage license, with the same man. Most people think that the government shouldn't interfere with cheating relationships, yet the only difference between cheating and polygamy, once again is polygamy!
So if society wants to put these men in jail for cheating on their wife, then society also need to put the rest of the cheaters in jail.
I read and hear of young girls getting pregnant outside of marriage and bringing children into the world only to become dependent on the taxpayer. I'd much rather they be married. If they are old enough to consent to sex then they are old enough to marry.
I am all for obeying the laws of the land and if there is a minimum age to marry it should be followed. Sometimes I question the effects of such laws, and I see them as undermining the institution of marriage.
Thanks to all of you for opening our minds.
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"Not only did I say this publicly, but the FLDS have lived it privately for more than a year," Jessop said...]
Sounds like the FLDS leadership has quietly dumped Warren Jeffs and his child bride teachings and practices.
If they'd only announced this decision publicly a year ago, instead privately adopting it, the FLDS and Texas might have avoided the YFZ raid fiasco.