They remind me of Losercrats and Retardicans. No matter what the evidence is, they refuse to budge. For the Losercrats and Retardicans, it is simply a matter of sanity. If either concedes, even to facts, they will melt into a pile of jello. The truth can slap them upside the head and they will not budge. One does not need to be very bright to be either a Losercrat or a Retardican.
On the other hand, the freaks in Texas - a bed inside a glorified pimp shop reserved for men to rape girls as young as 13. Some men had as many as 20 'wives'. Some girls were popping out the babies like an assembly line, at 16. 416 children have been taken into custody - most do not know who their parents are, their last names, or birth dates.
I don't know how many people lived on the sex ranch (I saw one number of 10,000 freaks), but no one new joined, no one really ever left and husbands married more than one wife. That must get tricky (four, eight, fifty, even one story of one man having over 150 wives). I am no whiz at math, but I can tell that after some period of time, everyone will be intermarried and the rapes that go on will be between cousins. Those records must be somewhere because even those freaks would keep records to prevent brother and sister from reproducing (we hope).
Now the freaks in the freak shop will never understand the loathing we have for what went on, they will never understand, and will in fact, become defensive. It is sad. Sad that they will NEVER understand what they were doing was not God's will. We may not know what His will is with any certainty, but we can probably figure out a few things He does not approve of ... that freak shop is one. If I was 19, I would have tried to stop the authorities - all that sex in holy beds was coming to an end for these freaks. I only wish they would find time in prison with Bubba - for personal time.
Deviancy should not be rewarded, YET how to accommodate the issue of religious freedom. At what point is it no longer just an issue of religious freedom. I suppose the simple answer is - when it impacts young children. Everything else is perfectly fine. So it isn't really like they were trawling through the Vatican as an attorney for the sect argued.
UPDATE: April 29, 2008
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Texas child welfare officials say more than half the teen girls swept into state custody from a polygamist sect's ranch have been pregnant.
Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar says 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 were living on the ranch in El Dorado. Of that group, 31 already have children or are pregnant.
State officials took custody of all 463 children at the Yearning For Zion Ranch more than three weeks ago after a raid prompted by calls to a domestic violence hotline.
Child welfare officials say there was a pattern of underage girls forced into "spiritual marriages" with much older men at the ranch.
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