I absolutely agree that our government has, and will continue to waiver in justice regarding religious freedom.
BUT
It is an abuse case. In Texas it is very difficult to remove a child from their parents. Everything possible is done in the was of services to avoid removal and judges are often hesitant - even when they should not be hesitant. The FDLS will try to make this a religious freedom case - but religious freedoms are not inclusive of abuse of any kind. I spoke with an LDS friend of mine yesterday evening and he explained that the LDS has been wanting this facility closed down for quite sometime. It like calling the wacko in Waco a Christian - Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church a Baptist, etc. Even though I do not understand or comprehend the beliefs of the Mormons, I do absolutely respect their religious rights. These people are in a cult - not a religion.
From a post by Ilsa
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24009286 /
Carolyn Jessop, who was one of the wives of a polygamist-sect leader, talks with TODAY's Matt Lauer about life on a fundamentalist compound.
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A polygamous community in Texas that follows the teaching of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints practices pedophilia, torture and child abuse under the guise of a religion, according to a woman who escaped the sect with her eight children five years ago.
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The alleged control began in infancy.
“The method he would use with infants was a form of water torture,” Jessop said of her former husband. “He would spank the baby until it was screaming out of control, and then he would hold the baby faceup under a tap of running water so it couldn’t breathe. He would do this repeatedly. Sometimes, it would go on for an hour, until the baby was so exhausted it couldn’t cry anymore. This method he called ‘breaking them.’”
To a child, the abuse becomes normal, she said, and resistance becomes unthinkable to most. “With this level of mind control, it’s something you’re born into and it’s generational. The babies born into this, they don’t stand a chance from the beginning,” she said.
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My God. How could a mother listen to and watch her baby being tortured like that without trying to take the baby and run away? it must have been the conditioning.
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Just my thoughts.