Thursday, April 17, 2008

solution?

has anyone else been keeping up with all of the polygamist stuff that came up in the news last week. i watched a little about it on cnn yesterday and have read a few articles today. it blows my mind that this place is made-up of "church" people-from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (aka Mormans). every time i think about all the people who have been trapped into this ridiculous way of life, i get so mad! as so many on the outside can tell, it's just not right-in any way, shape or form. it's not what families are meant to look like and it's certainly not what the church is supposed to look like. but a terrible, terrible departure from the truth has made this group what it is. and it's very, very sad. and the answer, as the courts are learning, is not as easy as raiding the compound and freeing many women and children...because a lot of them like this way of life, who can blame them (in a way)-it's all they've known! 416 children have been ripped away from all they've ever known...and something has to be done with them. and there are a ton of mothers who are broken to pieces because their children have been taken from them... it's just a terribly sad story, any way you look at it.

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