Comments on: 400 Children.

By: cmark411

cmark411 — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:57:59 +0000

Texas CPS has kept pregnant adults in foster care. The CPS workers stating that the women were adolescents. CPS did this by denying the validity of their documents. Once the babies are born, the mothers have been sent away because sudenly CPS has validated their age, and sure enough, they are adults! The babies kept in custody. CPS denied the validity of the documents to get custody of the babies. Just for fun, lets pretend the mothers were 15years old. They would be a victim, not a criminal. So why would CPS victimize the mother again. What has been the rational for taking these new borns away from their mother? No matter how you look at this it is evil.

By: noid

noid — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:59:19 +0000

I’m a plain non-polygamist Mormon, but this scares me. This means that if some fruitcake I go to church with abuses his kids, CPS can come take away MY kids — guilt by association.

If the law holds that I must not associate with potential child molesters, then I need to stop going to church and give myself a 10% raise.

Maybe I’ll be avoiding Mormons for a while, lest I put my family in jeopardy.

By: dave

dave — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:21:15 +0000

I have read with interest all of the comments posted here. Some of these comments seem to be from other countries so I understand that you live in socialist regimes that makes everyone property of the state. However, I grew up in a very dogmatic baptist environment in the south of the united states. I even went to one of those cult sect private schools you are so quick to rant on about. One thing i did get out of the experience is an education on the meaning of the constitution. The state of Texas has basically urinated and defecated all over it. That is the issue. We are supposed to have freedom of religion, and be secure in out persons for starters, then their is that pesky thing about self incrimination too. We are supposed to have the “Rights” to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. I think we even fought a war based on these principals. I agree that the allegations against these people are horrid. However, when did we abandon the principal of presumed innocence? Is all of America clueless or what?

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:40:02 +0000

My understanding is that fundamentalists are not looking to legalize polygamy, but simply to decriminalize it. Only one marriage would be recognized by the state under that scenario, so it would not take a massive rewriting of marriage laws.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:53:42 +0000

#133 – Such assumptions might or night not be true, but assuming them is instructive.

By: GRACE

GRACE — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:45:45 +0000

It seems these 50 year old men could have used a condom. Trojan gives them out for free! If these girls were educated and allowed a choice, they would at least know to “be careful” as you say. But to have sex with a young girl in ignorance of what is being done to her and in ignorance of the consequence is wrong. Education is what is lacking here, ignorance should not be encouraged by any faith, nor protected by any “freedom”. These girls deserved a chance to become something other than a brood mare.

By: Jon W

Jon W — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:04:17 +0000

No Grace we dont arrange marriages, now we hand them condoms and tell them to “be careful”.

So much better.

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:13:54 +0000

It’s ironic that someone named Grace is essentially pleading for the forced rape of another. I agree that the behavior is sickening, but becoming monsters ourselves doesn’t seem like a good answer.

By: GRACE

GRACE — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:11:42 +0000

There is a lot of comment on young girls getting pregnant by young boys, and how what essentially amounts to poor judgment by two immature children (I’m sorry, you are a child at 18)is equivalent to a 50 year old man having sex with a child that is young enough to be his daughter. In both situations, the girls may be ignorant, but I am sure a 50 year old man is fully aware of what he is doing and is little more than a pediophile. What is equally nauseating, is how these men would hide behind religion to cover such actions! Who in their right mind would “arrange” to have their teen age daughter married to an old man of 50 years old, and why would anyone not see the need to progress away from such sickening and antequated behavoir is beyond me. We no longer live in a time when we marry off our daughters at thirteen, and should have the sense to realize that such behavior deprives these girls of their childhood and innocence to fulfill the sick needs of depraved old men. I believe in freedom, but this takes the cake. I think if they are found guilty, they should be jailed for life so they can experience first hand what it’s like to be raped against their will.

By: MikeInWeHo

MikeInWeHo — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:20:34 +0000

re: 126

In Utah or another uber-red state, quite possibly. Horror stories abound.