Any views on what's happening in Texas with the polygamists?

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08 Apr 2008, 12:01 am

I think it's all made up. I think that some baptist made that call or the state made up the call and such girl does not exist. I think they are overstepping people's rights. I think it's wrong to say that a 16 yr old should not marry a 50 yr old, even if her parents approve...or because their religion believes it's ok...yet, the state of Texas allows a JUDGE and the parents of a 13 year old to get married...that's very hypocritical.

I also believe that saying that these women are kids are brainwashed by their leaders is ridiculous...it is no different than the Catholics, the Baptists and many others who take their kids to church and scare them that they're going to hell if they become gay, or have sex before marriage, or whatever...

I think it's a sad day in the US when people feel they have the right to tell others how to live their lives or raise their children with the assumption that their way is the correct way.

Enough said.



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08 Apr 2008, 12:26 am

reminds me of the branch davidians in waco.


i guess they decided to not use the tanks this time.



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08 Apr 2008, 7:28 am

skafather84 wrote:
reminds me of the branch davidians in waco.


i guess they decided to not use the tanks this time.


Probably because when the government agents went to investigate and knocked on the compound door, they were not machine-gunned by the cultists.



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08 Apr 2008, 8:40 am

I am surprised that Texas would actually ban a Christian denomination.


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08 Apr 2008, 8:41 am

whatamess wrote:
I think it's all made up. I think that some baptist made that call or the state made up the call and such girl does not exist. I think they are overstepping people's rights. I think it's wrong to say that a 16 yr old should not marry a 50 yr old, even if her parents approve...or because their religion believes it's ok...yet, the state of Texas allows a JUDGE and the parents of a 13 year old to get married...that's very hypocritical.

I also believe that saying that these women are kids are brainwashed by their leaders is ridiculous...it is no different than the Catholics, the Baptists and many others who take their kids to church and scare them that they're going to hell if they become gay, or have sex before marriage, or whatever...

I think it's a sad day in the US when people feel they have the right to tell others how to live their lives or raise their children with the assumption that their way is the correct way.

Enough said.


Yeah, I hear ya. Our state government is no different than the Taliban.

And contrary to popular opinion, it is possible to be both Christian *and* progressive.


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08 Apr 2008, 8:47 am

whatamess wrote:
I think it's a sad day in the US when people feel they have the right to tell others how to live their lives or raise their children with the assumption that their way is the correct way.



So you are saying that this country has had a very sad history since it's inception? Because of prohibition of alcohol, the war on drugs, a ban on polygamy, a ban on inter-racial marriage, Jim Crow, a ban on contraception or even discussing contraception, COINTELPRO, J. Edgar Hoover and his boys, blue laws, the vice squad, etc.....? That's not even getting close to some of the most egregious problems.



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08 Apr 2008, 9:12 am

While I oppose Polygamy I don't think we should be forcing these people to give it up. if they can screw with one
religious group they can screw with all of them.



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08 Apr 2008, 9:39 am

And of course if a Christian group feels that it's OK for old men to screw children, that's OK as long as it's not priests screwing choir boys.



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08 Apr 2008, 9:50 am

whatamess wrote:
Baptists and many others who take their kids to church and scare them that they're going to hell if they become gay, or have sex before marriage, or whatever...
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Oh no, I'm going to hell. x.x Heh. Yep, they kind of do that though. On the other hand, I think if someone feels they need more than one or two spouses for sex, that they obviously have issues. King David is no acception. He had lots of wives right? 'sigh' Too bad they didn't have therapists back then to ask him. "What the heck is your problem, and why can't you keep it in your robes?" but noo... . He was the big @#$ King. How dare they ask him that, right?