The Stepford Wives of Eldorado?

[kentuck]

This is a very disturbing story. I have seen a few of the women on the Larry King Show talking about their children. But they never want to talk about their husbands, as if forbidden?

But the question I have is this? Did the state have the right to go in and take away the children on circumstantial evidence at best? Are they breaking the law by practicing their "religion", which is a leftover sect of the Latter Day Saints of the Mormon Church?

Or is their religion so out of the mainstream that they cannot practice it in this country or the state of Texas, even though it is not forbidden by law? Even if illegal, should the state have the right to take 400 children away from their mothers? What is your opinion?

[PDJane]

1. My opinion would be laced with profanity.

This is a cult, operating on taxpayer money, abusing women and children, and covered under the guise of freedom of religion.

They are breaking the law. They are not a quaint sect, but a virulent, nasty, controlling and abusive cult. Most cults do, eventually, implode. This one will too, but in the meantime, it's leaving a lot of traumatized people and even more birth defects and outright mental deformities in its wake.

Enough, already.

[Breeze54]

2. "Did the state have the right to go in ?" - Yes!

That's CPS's job... to investigate allegations.

Good thing they finally did, imho!!

NO RELIGION has the right to break the law.

It's clear there are pregnant underage girls.

These creeps are criminals, imho, using religion to commit crimes.

[panader0]

3. A bunch of wackos

I wonder why the women don't care that their husbands have many wives. The women are weak and mousey. I wonder where the cult gets the money to build all that stuff.

[Breeze54]

5. The kids/women are brain washed and they get their money from welfare and

ranching and farming.

[kestrel91316]

7. The multiple wives are all legally single mothers, and with their

mobs of kids they get millions in welfare that gets turned directly over to the church. So we, the taxpayers, are forced to directly fund the abuse.

But that's gonna end some day. Their assets in Utah are all held in trust against FLDS wishes, lol, and are being sold to pay legal judgements against them for their abuse of the Lost Boys of Short Creek.

IMHO the guardians of these kids should all sue FLDS for civil rights viiolations and fuckin' bankrupt them.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Freedom of religion ends when human rights are in jeopardy

I'm actually surprised that these people haven't had the kids taken away before--the first underage birth would have been an alert to me. I'm also surprised that Arizona hasn't done anything about the clut compound in Colorado City, where instances in birth defects that are known to be a result of incest is quite high. Women have come forth there with accusations of rape, abuse, etc, and the leaders are let off with slaps on the wrist at best. Why? Because of votes? Because of some unknown power these people have over elected officials?

[kestrel91316]

8. Mormon apologists for the FLDS practically run AZ, and they definitely

run UT. The only inroads against them there, until recently, have been civil suits. Now, of course, AZ has convicted the head of the FLDS (Warren Jeffs) of accessory to rape and he will probably be in prison for life. He still calls the shots for FLDS, though, via his son.

[kestrel91316]

6. FLDS is not just hateful to their own women and children.....

according to the Southern Poverty Law Center they are a virulently racist hate group.

Of course, their defenders here on DU will think that is just peachy, too.