Texas handling of YFZ children disputed

An opinion defending Texas

Could Texas have acted in a more humane manner rather than separating children from their mothers? In other words, should Texas have left the children and mothers on the ranch and taken all the men into custody? That’s what many pundits are arguing

To take into custody, is to arrest - but before an arrest is lawful their must be probable cause to believe that the person arrested committed a specified crime. The crimes in this case are child rape and unlawful sex acts with a minor. Observing underage pregnant girls is not enough probable cause to round up all the men even though we suspect they are all morally culpable. A specific man must be connected with a specific victim in place and time.

It has been reported that many of the children don’t know who there mother is, let alone their father, and those that do aren’t talking. If that is true then the Texas authorities did the only thing they could do and that was take all the children into custody.

The priesthood predators in the FLDS are counting on the emotional trauma caused by separating children from mothers to distract from their sex crimes. When they say they are only obeying god’s laws, they are as guiltless as the Nazis at Nuremberg who said they were only following orders. Warren Jeffs is their god. He is their prophet, teacher and driving force behind FLDS, Mormon polygamist behavior, just as Brigham Young was the prophet, teacher and driving force behind Nineteenth Century Mormon polygamy, which by the way was no better. It is the FLDS priesthood who for years has been violating the civil rights of the mothers and children - accusing Texas of violating their civil rights just won’t fly.

If the women and children were allowed to remain on the ranch with the men while the Texas authorities attempted to sort things out, it would create a much larger legal mess than the mess that now exists.

We all grieve when children are taken from their mothers but in this case, what other incentive is there for these unscrupulous men to discontinue sex with children? They are pedophiles who use Jesus Christ as an excuse to deflower little girls. Are these men so depraved that they can’t restrain themselves until the girls at least reach age 18? To say their behavior is a "sincere religious belief" is to give pedophilia respect.

These priesthood pedophiles are to blame leaving the Texas authorities no alternative but to take the present course. Which is the greater injustice, to leave these children in a spurious, sexually abusive environment or to remove the children until they can identify the pedophiles and bring them to justice? Lets see how many of these brave priesthood child abusers have the temerity to step forward and admit that little Sarah was given to him by Warren Jeffs to bring forth a "righteous seed" and that she had no say or choice in the matter.

What is a "righteous seed?" It is the offspring of a Mormon plural marriage. In the FLDS the intent is for the son to grow up like his father - the girl to be a submissive "priesthood brood mare."