Counterintuitive Man says…
This polygamist thing confuses me — why would any rational man want more than one wife? And how is that anyone else’s business as long as the adults consent — as unlikely as that may seem? Our Man Flint had four women, and was revered, do we have our sensibilities screwed on right?
When the “news†calls your home a “compound†you’re screwed blued and tattooed, even if you call it a ranch (which reporters will ignore, there’s just no sensationalism there).
Remember — a compound has barracks, the polygamists lived in dormitories. Dormitories are found on a campus, which is what the aerial views looked like (but there’s even less zip in dormitory than ranch).
Polygamy is a religious choice, or at least used to be in the land of the free. A leading panel of experts could find no powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to regulate polygamy, or marriage in any form. The correct term, long forgotten, is “holy matrimony,†clearly implying no basis for government interference.
Abuse of minor children however is a separate issue, and a legitimate criminal matter.
At least, the obsession with these people is squeezing out any mention of the billions missing from other people in the Bear Sterns scandal, and the execs who cashed out just prior to the “unexpected†collapse and subsequent bailout with taxpayer money.
Speaking of polygamy dangers, whatever happened to the killer bee threat that was going to ruin life as we know it?
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May 11th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
One look at this whole thing on tv told me what the hoo ha was all about. Here is a group of people living in a christian fudamentalist sect, they were minding their own business and doing what they were doing without causing anyone any trouble. The problem is here is a “minisociety” where the family unit is supreme and the man is the head of that unit. No questions asked! The “feminazi” types and the ” nanny state” who thinks it own us,went positively ballistic. Here were some people who said ,” we will make and live by our rules and the rules of God, we will not follow societys warped and perverted norms and we will not allow the state to tell us how to live” Oh this made some “feminazi type” go ape sh**, why how dare they not follow the nanny states communist socialist plan for the family, how dare the man even think he is the head of his family and his children are his. We can not allow that to continue.
So folks this is what actually happened. Now there may or may not have been abuse. I am not saying it did not or that it did happen. But I think the states modivation for its actions is highly suspect. I think they were way less concerned about possible abuse, than they were about some people telling them to take their system and get lost .