Sunday, April 27, 2008
In all the media coverage of the children removed fron the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints compound, I've seen no mention of the sect's history of banishing teenaged boys to make it easier for church elders to have their pick of the young women for wives. These are some scary people. Note also that the link is a few years old 1; these people have been cause for worry for some time. That is not at all a comment on the wisdom and justice of what the state has done recently, but rather a small attempt to rectify the omission by the media of what seems like pertinent background information.
1 And from a British newspaper. I wonder about the journalistic ethics regarding quotes; a man I assume is American is quoted as saying, "But they all want to go back to their mums." Mums? Really?