Well I’m not too surprised that the Texas courts are telling the Texas state government to start returning some of the children to the FLDS laboratory, where they are producing girls to be the multiple wives of the old men running the operation. Oh I guess they are really a group of religious people practicing their faith, which is that it supposedly pleases God when a man continually brings into the home a young woman to share in the household duties. I’m not surprised because government tends to do things badly. And it looks like they didn’t get all their legal ducks in a row. It remains to be seen if any of the children will be protected from this abusive group.

There are splits among conservatives on this issue, and ambivalence among many, even if they’ve staked out a position. We home school our children, and so naturally worry about government becoming emboldened to go after others. In California, a ruling basically makes home schooling illegal due to a court case against a religious family that was home schooling their children.

While I’m concerned about it, basically I decided that I will take my stand against the nutters. Polygamy is evil. If a group is left alone to practice polygamy, it is inevitable that child abuse will happen. Even if at first a strict policy is used against “marrying” a girl younger than 18, all girls of that age will be married off. The young men must wait their turn. But for how long? As there are more and more men without women to marry, they will look to younger girls. Or excuses will be made to push out the young men. This has already happened. There are groups that attempt to help the “lost boys” that have been forced out of these communities. They have been isolated in these communities and struggle to make it in normal society, and are thus prone to abuse.

It does not help the conservative cause to side with nutty people who, whether they are aware of it or not, are involved in evil. We should keep our eyes open and be prepared to stand against the government when they go after groups like homeschoolers, Boy Scouts, and after religious symbols in the public square, because they will do that. But sometimes there are worse things than government.

First they came after the communists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came after the homosexuals and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a homosexual. Then they came after the polygamists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a polygamist. Ok, I know they are coming after me, but at least we’re rid of the communists, homosexuals, and polygamists.