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Quote by: loser  Exactly what does "underage girls" mean? Are you implying that 14 or 15 years of age is too young for marriage? It's the laws that are bogus (especially Texas laws). There's little difference between the Texas 'militia' and Hitler's SS. Remember Waco? Same zealots, same war crime atrocities against helpless children. It makes my blood boil to see evil people step in and destroy happy and functional families.
Maybe my views and your views do not align with these polygamists and separatists but that doesn't matter. Our country is founded on the principle of individual freedoms. The oppressive regime that we call our government once fought for freedom; now, it fights against it.
If we can allow Satanists to practice their rituals, homosexuals to flaunt their perversions, promote adultery and prostitution by allowing nude dancers to accept money insertions, and a plethora of other less-than-optimum behaviors and actions that 'indoctrinate' our children, I don't see why we can't allow polygamy and 'child' marriage. It's not like it's unique or unheard of in the world. In fact, it is a quiet common practice all over the world.
But even if we can't allow polygamy and child marriages, it is a travesty of justice to take these children from their mothers (where the likelihood of abuse is virtually non-existent) and put them into foster homes where abuse is almost certainly guaranteed.
Isn't it amazing at just how selective tolerance can be? |
You can thank the government for making polygamy laws long ago. Remember this dates back to the first 30 years the first Mormons who practiced polygamy. They have long since stopped however break-offs continue to practice it. At the time, it was the U.S. against the lds church at the time, and they created that law against the lds church specifically at the time (and they were forced out just like the Native Americans, and thus were the first pioneers as well). I do not put down polygamy if its done properly, however, I am 100% against pairing old men with young children. It is simply unethical to me, and I do not understand how we should be allowing this to happen. It is true not all of the flds people practice this, but the majority speaks and everyone should get individual trials like they are. I still dont think how a person can break a law and expect to hide behind a break off of a church and pretend that law and justice do not apply to them.