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The State is not interested in discerning the theology behind the systematic statutory rape of 13 year old girls by 50 year old men. God reads the hearts of people.
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Former Israeli president Golda Meir was once asked if the rape rate could be reduced in Israel if women were required to not venture out at night alone. Her response was that if men were doing the rapes then why should the women be the ones not allowed to go out at night? Same here, if your 50 year old guy (who is he and is 50 the age men get married in the FLDS?) is the one in question then he should be the one being fed by the Texas Stormtroopers, not over 400 children.
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Okay...we'll split the difference and call them statutory rapists. That's a tad less inflammatory then pedaphile, I suppose.
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That's okay, statuatory rape is a legal term and means different things in different societies. In Mexico City the age of consent is 12 and the legal marriage age is 14. In many Muslim nations a man can marry a 9 year old since Mohammed married a 9 year old. Incidentely, you have not answered my question about Mohammed. Was he a perv?
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Not if there are convictions. Rosie says they are innocent until proven guilty. Of course, that does not always mean that parents and children get to stay together, anymore than it means that those in pretrial status automatically get released on their own merits (yeah...I happen to work in a jail).
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For someone who knows a lot about the dangers of state power and religious liberty I am surprised you are not sounding the alarm over this one. Come on, here we have the state treating these women as if they were mindless sheep and justifying a communal approach to state power rather than an individual approach that is mandated by the US Constitution. I happen to feel that this is a dangerous path to choose.