FLDS bishops appeal ruling to Utah Supreme Court

Two polygamous church bishops are asking the Utah Supreme Court to overturn a district court's decision that they claim denies them their constitutional right to carry out their ecclesiastical duties.

[nina]

the right to equality and self determination for the young women

must trump the old man's religious right to their bodies.

[VisionClarity]

I wish people would try to understand FLDS instead of passing judgment based on the thought that they could never be a part of them. Try reading a few positive books and articles about them. http://factsbeknown.blogspot.com/

[nina]

VisionClarity wrote:

I wish people would try to understand FLDS instead of passing judgment based on the thought that they could never be a part of them. Try reading a few positive books and articles about them. http://factsbeknown.blogspot.com/

I'd rather real realistic ones about them

inbred communities where a handful of men are fathering all the children have a high infant deformity and mortality rate

when young women are marry off to grandpa and young men are used as little more than unskilled slave labour before being driven out of the community and into a world they are not prepared for and are convinced they will not get into heaven

this is not a sustainable nor healthy community

when a man marries 27 women, and claims the first as his legal wife - and the other 26 are claiming welfare as single mothers of 104 children

this is illegal and immoral

for these communities to claim the government is a tool of satan - and yet steal all the government money they can through welfare fraud, taking money for runnign a school but not teaching the curriculum of public schools, for using their young men as below minimum wage employees in their companies that bid on government contracts for forestry, road maintenance

what possible postives can you really think that there are?