Thanks for the link Foxfier.
Polygamy is illegal in Texas. “Spiritual marriage” does not exist in the Legalities of Texas law or the laws of any other state.
1. Polygamy, honour killing, honour beatings, prohibiting female beyond certain grades, “spiritual marriages” with underage girls, rejection of state law-based legal age of content with adults, denying children life-saving medical proceedures(based on religious belief), wholesale abandonment of young boys represented as sexual competition, or any other cult practice that we, as normal law-abiding citizens must obey or WILL face serious consequences for breaking. None of these should ever be permitted to exist in this country as privledges under cultist ideologies.
The FLDS case has less to do with what we “feel” about their dress or look or living “Prophet” religion and much more to do with “special privledges” afforded or “overlooked” which are basic laws the rest of the country will be tossed in jail for breaking or ignoring. Laws BASED on basic compassionate moralities i might add. Laws that neither you nor I make, yet respect because they attempt to treat fairly ALL human beings. Especially women and children, who are mostly the preyed upon, and render us all hopefully more civilized. Once these individual rights break down, (and I am not talking about the right’s one man has over another – as in his right to dictate over his flock) or are glossed over, our society will quickly degenerate and all our base, animalistic instincts could take hold. One only has to look to any of the other continents OR other cults where and in which rule of law has either broken down or morphed into to see the result. From the taliban to darfur, rape and oppression always seems the first to surface.
