Beyond "Mormon"

Pa said there were too many people in the Big Woods now. Quite often Laura heard the ringing thud of an ax which was not Pa's ax, or the echo of a shot that did not come from his gun. The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.



SAN ANGELO, Texas (CNN) -- The state of Texas should not have removed children from a polygamist sect's ranch because it didn't prove that they were in "imminent danger," an appeals court ruled Thursday.
Any child reared to believe that there is a large, bearded Man in the sky who designed the whole universe, but gets angry easily is in"imminent danger".

Factor in encouraging a man to marry multiple, uneducated "sister wives" who dress like pioneer womenfolk and who are perpetually pregnant and you've got a perfectly good reason to confiscate their offspring. If somebody has too many cats the Humane Society comes in and takes the cats while EMS wheels out their owner, prattling on a gurney about why the tin foil hats are important.
The photo above is that of an actual FLDS family. Any teenage girl of childbearing age is potentially one of the wives, not a daughter. And this is due to the fact that Joseph Smith stared into a hat at some gold plates an ascended being told him how to find in a dream.

If these kids were kittens, they'd have found them good homes.