Comments on: More than 180 youth and children removed from Texas fundamentalist compound http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/05/more-than-180-youth-and-children-removed-from-texas-fundamentalist-compound/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:58:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Euphrosyne http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/05/more-than-180-youth-and-children-removed-from-texas-fundamentalist-compound/comment-page-1/#comment-31279 Euphrosyne Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:10:09 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/05/more-than-180-youth-and-children-removed-from-texas-fundamentalist-compound/#comment-31279 For "compound," read "induction center, breeding facility and internment camp run by pedophiles." For “compound,” read “induction center, breeding facility and internment camp run by pedophiles.”

]]> By: JS O"Brien http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/05/more-than-180-youth-and-children-removed-from-texas-fundamentalist-compound/comment-page-1/#comment-30674 JS O"Brien Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:44:45 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/04/05/more-than-180-youth-and-children-removed-from-texas-fundamentalist-compound/#comment-30674 It's a very odd religion. Its founder, Joseph Smith, who lived practically yesterday by the standards of most other religions, was quite clear about the divine sanction of polygamy. Yet, before the end of the century in which Smith lived, his church had foresaken his teaching. Mormon leaders are Popes, it would seem, or even more than Popes in that they seem able to change even the most bedrock doctiine with the newest "revelation." I've known way too many abused Mormon women to have much truck with Mormon men. Maybe if I looked at them through green glasses? It’s a very odd religion. Its founder, Joseph Smith, who lived practically yesterday by the standards of most other religions, was quite clear about the divine sanction of polygamy. Yet, before the end of the century in which Smith lived, his church had foresaken his teaching. Mormon leaders are Popes, it would seem, or even more than Popes in that they seem able to change even the most bedrock doctiine with the newest “revelation.”

I’ve known way too many abused Mormon women to have much truck with Mormon men.

Maybe if I looked at them through green glasses?

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