polygamist sect loses its lambs
#1
Posted 15 April 2008 - 08:41 PM
Texas sect temple 'used for sex' -BBC
US sect leader made girl marry -BBC
So here we are, at one of the bigger cases of law vs religion in the USA.
400 children taken away by the police because one reported rape, forced marriages and low-age pregnancies. these poor children were before the intervention almost certainly doomed to a life of ignorance and abuse.
Well that is not 100% correct, as it seems the men were allowed to move out from the place once they were of age. Naturally the masters of the sect wouldn't risk the young ones coming in and eating the fruits from their carefully tended fruityards. They were to go out into the world and spread their seed and creed the way that they did it. No living in the basement, leeching money from daddy's company here.
But luckily the police ultimately got an excuse to break this place up. Now the question is, can they with good faith decide that these children can be sent back into this mind-prison? Or do they deserve a better future. Perhaps not a purely secular future, but at least a moderate one? I hope that they can, and i hope that more of them will. 400 children is alot, but i fear its just the tip of the iceberg.
Ultimately, i hope this is one of the mass-media news-stories that will leave an impact. With a recession coming up, religion is usually one of the businesses you can rely on(that, selling rope and being an undertaker are the other options ). Lets hope that it won't grow too much on it.
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Posted 15 April 2008 - 09:48 PM
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#3
Posted 16 April 2008 - 04:10 PM
"I give you private information on corporations for free and I'm a villain. Mark Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he's 'Man of the Year.'" - Assange
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Posted 16 April 2008 - 04:25 PM
#5
Posted 16 April 2008 - 08:39 PM
http://forums.revora...showtopic=59632
http://forums.revora...showtopic=34501
There are two active topics for that.
This is really nauseating though. Polygamy is one thing, and I don't think it's necessarily wrong. The pedophilia, rape, and abuse it's generally associated with is disgusting, however.
Edited by Cheshire Fox, 16 April 2008 - 08:41 PM.
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