Lots of churches in America are drumming up support regarding the slavery of Christians in Darfur but what about the sexual slavery of children in America? Where is the outrage from the Church about what is happening in Mormon compounds in the American West.
It is my prayer that our President is called on this by every foreign leader he meets until his term ends and then that it would begin again with the new president. This is a national embarrassment. Nobody could say we did not know this was happening. We all know that polygamous groups were systematically raping and enslaving teen girls to please the sexual fantasies of their owner/husbands and reap a new check from the government.
I am calling the church in America to repent of being silent. Fear of offending the Mormons has stolen the voice of the Church. It is our moral obligation to see that this stops. I know how passionate we are about ending abortion. We need to not stop that passion after birth.
What would you have done in the days of slavery? The same thing you are doing right now. What will you tell your children when this chapter of our history is retold in the future? Will you have a testimony or will you say you looked the other way?
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I understand your outrage, but the truth is that everything these guys are doing is illegal. Polygamy is illegal in this country. Having sex with children is illegal. Marriage to girls under 16 is illegal in Texas, no matter if their parents consent or not.
One of the problems with these nutcases is that in order for the law to get involved, their has to be some kind of evidence, and people are keeping their mouths shut. In support of the State of Texas, they moved in on this group of wackos in less than a week after they got the call from the girl asking for help. They took quick and decisive action on this and removed the children from the premises.
The church has been screaming about the Mormon church for decades and it has done us little good. God-fearing people hung Joseph Smith back in the day for his polygamous ways and that did little good.
Our system is set up so that the same freedoms that protect the church from the government, also protects the nutcases. If we want the government to go after the nutcases, then the government will go after us, too.
The answer, of course, is to convert the nutcases. The problem with that is they tend to remain isolated. Every good cult leader knows that the truth will set their followers free, so they make every effort to keep their people as far from the truth as possible.
The nutty ‘church’/cult in question here is the FLDS Church with approx. 10,000 members in remote communities in Texas, Utah, Arizona, and Canada. It is a separate organization from the regular LDS Church (7 million+ members) which no longer permits polygamy and kicked these ‘Fundamentalist’ LDS out of their church long ago.
We do need to be careful not to paint all Mormons with the same brush however. Even if all of them are messed up theologically, there are a number of vastly different Mormon denominations. I have studied the different Mormon Churches for years.
Warren Jeffs is the ‘prophet’ of the FLDS group and was pursued by the FBI for over a year before they caught up with him and put him in jail. It is the subsequent court case which has started to unravel all the secrets about this remote cult.
No action taken against the FLDS Church will offend the regular Mormons. They consider them apostates and cultists also. I have several Mormon acquaintances who are just as horrified about that group as we are.
The FLDS have maintained and have continued in their illegal polygamous lifestyle by living in small communities and counties in which they control all the land, the businesses, the schools, the churches, and hold all the political, legal, and civic offices including Mayor, Sheriff, Chief of police, county supervisors, all city and county attorneys, all local Judges, and even local National Guard armories.
The states and/or Federal government would have to intervene to stop polygamy in these communities but no one has the guts to start a ‘civil war’ that would probably make David Koresh’s Waco look like a party.