tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762465.post8548190744844102495..comments2023-09-28T06:26:07.114-04:00Comments on Hugh McBryde (<i>the Modern Pharisee</i>): What Friends of the FLDS do next. Yes, YOU are a friend of the FLDS, or you had better become one NOW.Hugh McBrydehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16926516260588481185noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762465.post-90465701173375465942008-05-03T18:53:00.000-04:002008-05-03T18:53:00.000-04:00I have been dying to post this quote somewhere and...I have been dying to post this quote somewhere and this seems the appropriate place, especially given the previous anon comment:<BR/><BR/>From the movie "A Man for All Seasons" (1966):<BR/><BR/><B>William Roper</B>: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! <BR/><B>Sir Thomas More</B>: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? <BR/><B>William Roper</B>: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that! <BR/><B>Sir Thomas More</B>: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake! <BR/><BR/>end quote<BR/><BR/>It doesn't matter what the allegations against the FLDS are, they are entitled to the same due process and Constitutional rights as every other person in this country. Once we start judging one group of people without equal application of the law and without due process, the rights of every person in the country are endangered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762465.post-43155175157300781892008-05-03T04:30:00.000-04:002008-05-03T04:30:00.000-04:00I am continually amazed by people who support the ...I am continually amazed by people who support the FLDS uncritically without looking at the devastating nature of the organization. Even if one does not buy into the reasoning of Texas CPS to take the children away from Yearning For Zion, there are two well-documented aspects of FLDS life in recent years that should give supporters pause.<BR/><BR/>They are:<BR/><BR/>1) Reassignment of wives and children from dissenting men to "worthy" men and<BR/><BR/>2) the "Lost Boys."<BR/><BR/>Both are dirty little secrets of the FLDS. The group tries to present itself as this bastion of moral living (oh, except we practice polygamy), but they don't want to talk about these two things. <BR/><BR/>It's well documented that Warren Jeffs has taken wives and children (whom he regards as "things" or "rewards") and reassigned them to "more worthy" men. It gives the lie to the idea that these are good (multiple) family people, because what love and stability can grow out of a situation where there's a real fear that if you step out of line, you'll lose your wives and children? What does that say to the wives and children? <BR/><BR/>As for the "Lost Boys," kicking out the teenage boys to fend for themselves on the unfamiliar streets of Salt Lake City or other cities in the Western USA is simply unconscionable. Oh yeah, family members are forbidden to have anything to do with the young man who has been thrown away like he's just a piece of trash. It's another way of breaking up families, done by the leaders of the FLDS, to keep the competition for wives down. <BR/><BR/>Both of these things are well-documented aspects of FLDS life. Any person who calls himself a supporter of the FLDS ought to think twice abous supporting an organization that cares so little about family ties that it will move wives and children around at the whim of the "profit," to say nothing of the disposal of a whole generation of young men.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com