The Texas Appeals Court ruling on the FLDS may be correct, BUT

[pnwmom]

these robotic people who follow every decree of Warren Jeffs, believing this criminal to be God's representative on earth, are deeply twisted. What a horrible situation.

The hearings are going to go on, with Judge Walter allowing in more evidence. Based on today's hearing, I think it is safe to predict new criminal charges against Warren Jeffs, at the very least. If you've read this far, I suggest you follow the link. As they say, a picture tells a thousand words.

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2008/may/23/hearing-includes-photos-of-sect-leader-kissing/

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51st District Judge Barbara Walther indirectly rejected assertions by the Third Court of Appeals that she should not have allowed the state to maintain custody of more than 450 children belonging to members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Attorneys for the state's Child Protective Services agency and an attorney for the infant in Friday's hearing did the same.

"I tried to narrow the scope and keep things moving along (in April), and the complaint was I didn't let enough evidence in," Walther said of the en masse custody hearing in which she granted the state temporary custody of the children. "We're going to have a full-blown adversarial hearing. If it takes two or three days, so be it."

The comments came amid testimony and evidence that raised eyebrows in the small courtroom and will continue to be when testimony resumes Tuesday morning. Most shocking was the state's release of a picture from summer 2007 showing imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs, now 52, deeply kissing a then-12-year-old girl, the aunt of the infant born May 12 whose custody was the subject of the hearing.

Rulon Daniel Jessop, the girl's brother and the infant's father, said he sees nothing wrong with his children being in the same house with underage "sister wives" of much older men. "It seemed a little wild to me," Jessop testified, "but you see a lot more wild things driving down the streets of the city at night. I do not consider a girl kissing a man sexual abuse."

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This was more than a 12 year old girl kissing a man. The card on which the photo was printed stated that it was their first "anniversary."

[sasquatch]

1. This is cause the snakehandlers of Texas are telling the courts to back off or they will be-

unemployed.

[Richard Steele]

2. The FLDS cult does not practice polygamy, it practices Child Sex Slavery. Different.

"Polygamy" requires CHOICE and FREE WILL.
Girls raised in the FLDS cult are allowed neither.

[pnwmom]

3. And the only reason it succeeds is that all the children are heavily inculcated

in these beliefs from birth.

And yet the solution is . . . what?

[Richard Steele]

4. The "solution" is a brutal test of sheer will...

Ask me about it wen I'm sober. I'm not sober right now.