Finally a voice in media is questioning the raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas. I have heard of nothing going on there that does not go on in any small town of that size in America other than polygamy.

The media played up that some girls gave birth before they were 18 years old and a few girls under 18 were pregnant but tell me that is not the case with a group this size anywhere in America. By the way, according to an expert on this cult the bed found in the Temple was there for sleeping not for ritual sex as some suggested. The public has been fed disinformation by people who know nothing about the cult.

Lets face it, the plan for the raid was in place long before it took place. The phone call was just an excuse for the raid because they had no other legal grounds to perform a raid. They even knew the phone call accusation was not a valid reason for the raid because they knew the man accused was not even at the ranch. It seems to me that the real truth will turn out to be that certain control freaks could not endure children being brought up in a religious compound in a way that they thought was not right.

Now they intend to take 400 children away from their mothers because someone might have been abused. like kids are not being abused in every village of this size.

So now the state is free to abuse 400 children and their mothers by putting the kids in foster homes in a culture that will be horrific to these kids. Statistics on foster homes tell us that some of these kids will be abused there. A few will go to sex abusers, a few will go to physically or verbally abusive people and almost all of these kids will not fit in with students at their public schools and will be abused by other children. Like I said before, take these kids from their mothers and everything they knew and these kids will grow up nuts. Talk about child abuse!

As one man who took part in the raid said, “It will teach people not to mess with Texas”. Certainly do not move to certain parts of Texas if you are not a Southern Baptist. By the way, I have nothing against Southern Baptists I was in the membership a couple of times. I am talking about a mindset in Texas among certain Southern Baptists.

The Texas polygamy raid

It has been more than two weeks since Texas Rangers raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch, seizing more than 400 children on vague evidence of polygamy and child abuse.

The raid was prompted by an anonymous call from someone identifying herself
as a 16-year-old girl who was being held against her will and claimed
to have been raped and abused by a 50-year-old registered sex offender
named Dale Barlow. He is on probation in Arizona for a 2007 conviction
for marrying and impregnating another 16-year-old girl.
In other words, the chief suspect was known, in advance, not to be in
the ranch compound.
Since the raid, the 16-year-old girl who allegedly made the complaint
has not been found. In fact, she may never have existed in the first
place. Authorities now suspect a woman in another state, known for
making unfounded accusations, may have been responsible for the call.

So let’s look at the criminal evidence that has been discovered since the raid:

• Investigators “found disturbed bed linens and a strand of hair that
  appears to be from a female head.” (Wow! They’d find plenty of this at
  my house, too.)
• 12 of the kids have chicken pox. (12 out of more than 400)
• No one is sure whether the children have been immunized. (No one is sure if they haven’t been, either.)
• Investigators say they have evidence of emotional, physical and sexual abuse of young children within the compound.

Do I want to see children raised in polygamist cults? No.

But neither do I want to see children abused at the hands of the state – which, I hate to say, happens every single day throughout America. It happens in government-run schools. It happens under the watchful eye of government-supervised foster care programs. It happens at the hands of the government-funded Planned Parenthood, which covers up the sexual abuse of children by adults and victimizes those children a second time by performing abortions on them. It happens when states willingly and knowingly adopt out innocent young children to same-sex couples. It happens when officials in states such as California actively try to ban homeschooling.

I don’t like polygamy. I don’t like cults. I don’t like sexual abuse of children.

But cults aren’t illegal, and polygamy and sexual abuse are crimes that need to be prosecuted individually, not collectively on a community that may have allowed them to happen.