Comments about ‘Woman abducted for converting to LDS Church, police say’

what ever happened to freedom of religion? freedom of speech?

This is an outrageous display of intolerance and selfishness on the part of the parents. There was a time in this Country when parents sought to teach their children the old fashioned values that made this Country great, such as freedom of religion. However, modern media continues to promote selfishness and a "me first attitude" that these parents have accepted whole heartedly, without any concern for the rights of their daughter.

At first I thought I might remark regarding the brain washing done by the LDS church. But then I realized the girl is 19. Shes old enough to choose for her self what she wants to fill her brain with. Hope she is found soon and I hope she is found safe.

This isnt about one being right and the other being wrong. The girl should not have joined the church and her father should have respected her choice. They are both wrong.

the guy from Texas is a evangelical of some sort.

This is what the GOP right wingers think of the LDS church guys. Yet the state of Utah keeps hanging their hat on the GOP. Why?

They purchased one way tickets to Salt Lake City? You oppose your daughter's conversion to the LDS faith, so the first thing you do is to take her to the LDS capital of the world?

Am I missing something here?

Reminds me of my family. That hate for the LDS never did fill that hole in their souls.

I don't think they want to face a Utah jury.

I think the important issue is not the choice of religion but the fact that she does not feel safe with her own parents. I hope she is ok.

Every family should tell their children to follow their heart, keep an open mind and read any book you can -----especially one that makes life full and abundant. Don't fear books, especially those which affect the most people.

Yes you did miss something. The parents bought one way tickets to Salt Lake City to come and get their daughter that lived here. It sounds like then they rented a car and drove to the Denver airport after they had abducted her.

It does not matter what religion this woman converted to it is still against the law to for anyone to abduct her. If her parents were worried about her they should have tried to reason with her. Abducting her will only make the matter worse and most likely they will be facing kidnapping charges and they may not be able to see the daughter. This is not a religion problem it is a family problem.

Wow. A lot of intolerant people on here. Including parents. Good thing I was raised by a somewhat open minded mother. Sheesh.

Wow. Most of you that commented here are worthless bigots.

I always find it interesting when people claim that the LDS Church "brainwashes" people.

Problem: The LDS Church has a lay ministry. No one's getting rich and driving sports cars off the tithing. Virtually all of the "brainwashing" is performed by 20-year-old volunteer missionaries and unpaid local bishops and Sunday School teachers. None of the typical motivations to brainwash apply, and there's no dictatorship-like structure to accomplish it.

Are we simply to believe that the LDS Church was so ingeniously designed that's it's a self-perpetuating brainwashing machine, indoctrinating minions so thoroughly that they eventually become the brainwashers themselves--everyone in the system completely unaware of their puppetlike role?


Or are we to believe that the insidious power structure of the General Authorities is behind all this--that by merely speaking twice a year in General Conference and corresponding with Area Authorities, that they're able to perpetuate the great indoctrination machine, and that they secretly rake in the tithing for themselves, buying mansions and so cleverly perpetrating the entire conspiracy that no one has ever found out?

Your hatred for the Mormon church must be quite ripe to sympathize with a kidnapping by an abusive father. If the father is abusive, what do you think is happening right now?

4:30 pm seems to confuse the Mormon Church with the Catholic Church of several hundred years ago. Name one scientist that was killed by an inquisition of the Mormon Church.

Scientists killed for doubting the church? Take your meds and cash your welfare check.

Normally people get abducted then convert.

Danielle Alonso is 19. She is legally-emancipated. She was perfectly within her rights to decide to convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. What her parents have done in kidnapping her is inexcusable. Her parents will try to brainwash her out of her new-found faith in the Lord's Only True and Living Church. It is sad to see supposedly responsible parents in the United States using terrorist tactics against their own daughter, Pray that the parents will see the error of their ways and let thier daughter practice her new-found faith in peace.