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Saturday, May 31, 2008

FLDS - Polygamy

as some may know the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas in the US was raided some weeks ago and 400 children were placed into children services amongst allegations of child abuse and underage marriages and pregnancy. the authorities acting on a tip of from an alleged victim, claimed that there were many under age girls who were pregnant or had had babies to older men they had been forced to marry. i have followed the church stories for some while now and am quiet interested in it. it began to raise international headlines after Warren Jeff's the spiritual leader of the church/sect started to move "selected" individuals from an original compound in Utah to the new Eldorado compound. splitting families and strict new rules were put in place. then Warren jeffs was committed to rape, accomplice in rape, forcing a 14 yr old to marry her adult cousin, and fathering a child by a 12 years old.
when the children were first taken they refused to tell authorities what their names were or identify their parents and many men are still not claiming who their children are out of fear of conviction. and the mothers are also keeping quiet.
some families are now being returned with couples going on record to say they are in monogamous marriages

personally i dont think i have a problem with polygamy hell i might even think its fun (okay this has stemmed probably from my love of the polygamy drama Big Love, excellent show with Bill Paxton!!)
but really each to their own. i dont think that marriage should be opened to more then 2 people (although i think that if its legal in your birth country it should be recognizes in a country u migrate to) but i dont think it should be illegal either. as long as they are committing fraud, abusing children into marriages what does it matter?
many people have secret second families out there and id probably kill Adrian if he had a secret family, but i sometimes think it would be cool to have someone els here, like when adrian is it at work and i need looking after, or when u want to go out somewhere and none of ur friends are available your sister wife would be. (okay maybe i couldn't handle adrian sleeping with his second wife lol but i could handle me sleeping with her LOL)

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