You love it when the code words are used, like compound. Imagine the storm around phrases like Gay marriage compound raided. Former Gay men tell of isolation and brain washing. Of course that would no longer be tolerated.
Our contention is that Marriage expansion for same sex couples is just a prelude to future expansions. If no one has the right to tell gay couples they can be married why would there be any right to deny man and woman to enter into polygamous relationships? Of course polygamy is illegal. So was sodomy but we saw it ignored for years. This recent crack down may have resulted in new exposure to the next marriage expansion arean being laid out. Check out some articles that have come out so far.
B.C. town feels sting of Texas polygamy raid
VANCOUVER — As more than 200 people were bused from a Texas polygamist compound over the weekend after a raid by police, the procession reverberated in the British Columbia town of Bountiful, a polygamous community with ties to the Texas stronghold.
Another:
Culturist Reactions to Polygamous Compounds
Could the authorities be wrong? Might the polygamists’ lifestyle be moral? After all, who are we to judge? They want several wives per man. Is that strange? Lots of men would privately tell you they see some merit to the system. When Oprah had polygamists on her show, the women said they had chosen it. And isn’t choice what is at stake here? Don’t they have a right to choose their own lifestyles?
If you judge by the standard of individual rights, polygamy cannot be condemned. By definition, the individual rights model detaches the individual from any sort or level of social judgment. If I want to do drugs, drop out of school or become a stripper, that is my business and my business alone. Furthermore, no one dare tell me it is wrong. In our “don’t disrespect me,” “self-esteem” culture, you cannot judge anything but judging.
If Christians are unable to restrict marriage between one man and one woman (such ideas might be labeled as hate speech) then why should society be in an uproar over one woman with many men or vice-versa? I believe in the current state of affairs in our culture the argument to restrict this behavior is on the path to being ended. Besides, I remember a President saying it’s a private matter.
Perhaps this last clip says it best.
Polygamy and Intrusion in West Texas
When the government sticks its finger into private religious worlds, the results are always bizarre and often evoke bigger questions about ultimate authority. The story of this weekend’s raid of a polygamist Mormon sect’s ranch in West Texas are worth watching and thinking about.
By last night, more than 200 women and children had been taken away on buses from the compound in Eldorado called “Yearning for Zion,” where close to 600 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) have encamped for the last few years. The evacuation was peaceful — putting to rest fears by locals of “another Waco,” where a 1993 FBI/ATF seige of the Branch Davidian sect’s compound ended with 82 deaths.
It remains to be seen whether the raid will be remembered as another Short Creek, the 1953 government action in Southern Utah/Northern Arizona that ended up bolstering the power of FLDS leaders like Warren Jeffs, who used their community’s fear of the outside world to control them.
3 Responses
How does any of this affect you personally?
Are your rights being restricted somehow?
Didn’t Father Abraham have a bunch of wives?
Isn’t the government’s concern here over incest and underage girls, rather than so much about multiple wives?
Posted on April 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am
In every highschool there is a 16 year old girl that is sexually abused. Oh, wasn’t the number one in every five? Well, in every school district one of the teachers is a pervert and molests some of the girls. What was it that I heard about the problem being rampant? So why don’t we bus all of the girls from every highschool where sex abuse is reported to a State detention center, and interrogate them on a fishing expedition to see if we can find some dirt on the teachers. If not the teachers, then the parents, or the neighbors. It does not matter if the girl who made the original call, is unavailable, and has run away. Just round up all the other girls from that Highschool COMPOUND! Put them in a detention center without their parents knowledge or consent, and interrogate them. They must know something because they go to the same highschool. There is certainly enough probable cause to get a search warrant for that Hishchool COMPOUND, because it is where they all go. Wow, we found a bed in the teacher’s lounge! It had to have been used for sexually molesting students!
From all indications, the polygamist families that are being persecuted at this time in Texas, are law abiding and moral people as a whole, who, like any other community, have their share of individuals who break the law, and under age pregnancy. They apparently choose to address those problems with marriage commitments instead of abortions or abandoning one’s offspring to adoption. Does that make it the rule of every marriage in the community? No. And it is far better than filling the welfare rolls with unwed mothers, as mainstream society does. What gives anyone the right to judge a whole community based upon one call from a teenage run away that they cannot even find? Oh, yeah, I forgot. Polygamy is against the law. So what laws do you break that have not been enforced (nor should be) shall we target? Unwed sex (fornication)? Oh, right! The polygamists do not do that, so it’s okay. Who are we?
Adam
Posted on April 15th, 2008 at 12:31 am
I am not a polygamist nor would I practice polygamy. I believe in 1 life, 1 love. However, as a conservative myself I am much more conerned about adultery, broken homes, teen sexual behavior, teen pregnancies, single parent homes, std rates, etc than about polygamous families. As of right now, we do not know that any child abuse happened at the “compund.” This society tolerates adultery, but when you marry more than once simultaneously suddenly it’s criminal. We have 13, 14, 15 year old having kids and that is accepted yet we’re supposed to be outraged because allegedly there were pregnant, married 16 year olds at the “compound.” We have kids in the secular society having sex at ever younger ages and we do nothing; yet we’re supposed to be concerned because young girls were supposedly being married and having sex. The hypocrisy is just mind boggling.
Posted on April 19th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Add A Comment