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Originally Posted by MyDogSkip
WOW...Posting propaganda from the Jeffs Cult...I'm like soooooooooooo impressed.
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Why shouldn't they have the right to state the truth as they see it (or propaganda as you will)? Shouldn't both sides be heard?
The state and media have been presenting their own "propoganda" unchecked for a few weeks now due to denying basic freedoms granted to citizens. Please don't even get into "propoganda". These people have been on public trial for weeks now with little recourse.
Thanks strawberry for your post.
[Willow agree with your quote. It's quite a position LDS leaders have been put into. No matter whether they help or not it will seem to be the wrong choice. The church is really getting caught up in this state run mess. The state should have thought things out before they took this action and asked for help before they went in and let things get so out of control. It seems that they are looking for some escape now from the problems they have created.
Please pray for our church leaders that they will have the wisdom to know what to do and will have the abilities granted them to lead our people through this time. That the FLDS will be granted justice and that any injustices done to them may in the long run be counted for their good.
QUOTE] The more I read about this the sadder I become. I was initially drawn to this article because of the suggestion that LDS representatives could supervise the FLDS prayer meetings.
But then as I read on through the story I read that they have had their phones confiscated and are no longer able to contact their attorneys. The authorities are trying to separate breastfeeding mothers from their babies.
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The women face a deadline of when the DNA samples are collected and the children are placed in foster care. They will likely be separated.
They are going to be separated even if no abuse has taken place? It sounds like child abuse is taking place right now and it's the state of Texas which is guilty of it. I never had much time for the FLDS before all this due to their stance on polygamy but my heart is softened towards them now.
Here in this country (and I don't doubt the same occurs in the US) there are children who are neglected, malnourished, beaten and tortured who are left with their parents, sometimes with the eventual tragedy of their deaths. Here we seem to have happy children, clean well fed and cared for whose only 'crime' is that their fathers may have more than one wife. It hasn't even been proved that their mothers are under the legal age and yet these innocent children are the ones who are suffering.
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