Recovering Baptist

So much for justice

Posted in Politics, Religion by RB on April 18th, 2008

Let’s face it, every religion has at least one aspect that outsiders don’t like. Protestants don’t want a Pope (although some of them treat certain pastors as one). Jews don’t accept the whole Messiah aspect of Jesus. And I, for one, like pork too much to be either Muslim or Jewish. And this is why our country has the First Amendment. To some extent in our country, freedom of religion rises a bit above the law. There are legitimate times for the government to step in, but if the government is going to interfere with a religious institution, it had better do so on pretty solid grounds.

I was pretty suspicious of the “16 year old girl” who called in a tip to the authorities from the start. It’s as if the government was looking for an excuse to invade the FDLS compound in west Texas, because once they got an anonymous call they went in full force and took everyone out rather than find the one girl and her accused assailant. Now it has been revealed that the girl who made the call lives in Colorado and had nothing to do with the compound at all.

The stories from people who have left the FDLS are awful. I met one of these women years ago; I only caught glimpses of her story, and it wasn’t pretty. Take a look at the pictures of the women; the 32 year old ladies look closer to fifty. I see nothing good about the FDLS “church.” But let’s face it, children were taken away from their parents and put in state custody on false pretenses. The child custody hearings are impossibly complex and unworkable. And to what end? What will be accomplished when all is said and done? If the wives actually loved their husbands and retained their faith, as weird and seemingly wrong as it is, would the state actually take the children from them? Would the state then lay claim to all new children from those so-called marriages?

I would like to think that only the Clinton administration could screw up the justice department this bad, but alas. It appears that Washington has enough incompetence to go around…

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