I agree with Lita. It has to start happening NOW we MUST PROTECT our children weather it be a little girl or a little boy. They no only what their parents tell them. This culture needs to ( I am so mad It is hard to slow my brain down) be broken. In Maryland, In any State. We as Americans we can no longer allow this to keep happening to OUR WONDERFUL children. I have wanted the law, the government, someone to help these children. I use to wish that if I got a group of people together that we would go get those beautiful children and save them from that terrible way of living. But boy would that have caused a ruckes. Now all of us must help in some way. Those children need to be loved and they need to know that they did nothing wrong. They need to learn about the world slowly. They need to be placed in homes that could teach them an other way of living, They do not need to be told that the way their parents taught them was wrong, they will figure that out as life for them becomes normal. But when they realize that the way they lived was not the norm they will need to be held and told that they did nothing wrong nor should they be ashamed of their other life. Who ever gets these children please LOVE them for them. Do NOT judge them.

If children are involved or if anyone is in danger, ABSOLUTELY it’s our business …..Otherwise if consenting adults decide this is something that works for them, so be it!

Over the past few days while watching all of this unfold in Texas, I am sickened more each day. The number of children being brought out of this compound is staggering. If children are in danger and certainly being married off at 14 is a danger, the local authorities and state should clearly enforce the laws. Polygamist sects (as well as any other religious sect which does not adhere to the laws on the books) should be made to comply. There was a man on TV last night who is a former FLDS member who said the whole premise of these compounds is about “power, money, and sex.” No child should have to suffer this and I think the eyes of our country have been opened more than we ever thought possible to this problem. I’m glad Texas has taken the first steps in getting these women and children help.

Children lack the resources that we,as adults have. In this case the leaders of this sect have used their power to create a world in which these children have no choice. Whenever one child,or in this case 400children are in need we,as a society,are mandated to protect and nurture them.

Is it any of our business-Yes. Should it be monitored-yes. Some of the goings on there are basically illegal. Why shouldn’t we monitor things like this.

Any of our busines? Who asked that question? My gawwwd of course it is any of our business, who would stand by and watch children being raped by dirty old controling freaks under the guise of some phony baloney ‘religion’. This question really offends.

Polygamy is likely to expand the result of the shortage of straight men, a relentlessly expanding low wage service economy, and so many women from broken homes hungering for emotional security whatever the circumstances.