Posted by Howard Richman on April 24 2008 at 08:36:14:
In Reply to: TX takes children away from homeschooling polygamist sect puts them in foster homes where they will be homeschooled posted by Howard Richman on April 24 2008 at 08:13:40:
Vox Day sees the government actions here as threatening to all parents. Here is a selection from his World Net Daily column:
The disingenuous bigotry of CPS´ action is perhaps best revealed by comparing the pregnancy rates of the supposedly abused teenage girls at the FLDS compound with the rest of the teenage Texan population. Voss stated that five of the 416 children were pregnant or had given birth; assuming that half of the 416 are female, that is a pregnancy rate of 24 per 1,000. The Texas pregnancy rate among women 15 to 19 is 101 per 1,000. It´s also worth noting that the "numerous" pregnant 13-year-olds hypothesized by one government worker mysteriously transformed into five "under 18s" when Voss testified.HowardIf the family lives of hundreds of American citizens living peacefully can be brutally invaded and destroyed on the basis of a single anonymous phone call that, as WND has reported, increasingly looks to have been a fraud, then every American family is at risk.
How you raise your children is between you and God alone. It is not a matter for the state or anyone else; it never has been. As this mass kidnapping of FLDS children and incredible violation of due process will almost surely demonstrate over time, government is a ruthless and power-maddened institution that is the very last one capable of serving the interests of the children. No conservative and no religious individual should support this outrageous action, even if adult members of the FLDS community are found to have violated Texas law as well as Texas social norms, because to accept this terrible precedent is to guarantee that future violations of family rights will be committed.
And as history has shown, the next time it may not be some weird and heretical Mormons in the government´s gun sights, but Jews, homeschoolers or evangelical Christians.