NPR released a story today that the Texas appeals court is overthrowing the case of child abuse against FLDS.

The sexual abuse of young kids in FLDS (as evidenced by dozens of abused pregnant young girls) was so obvious that the even the awful appeals court had to concede that abuse had occurred. But they countered by saying it wasn’t “significant”. The court ruled that a culture that sanctifies child rape is not a danger to young girls!

Of the judges that heard this case, 100% of the male judges voted for FLDS, and 100% of the female judges voted against FLDS and for the child welfare advocates.

As for the 16-year-old girl made the desperate call to police which started this case in the first place? They can’t find her, so the state is now calling her call for help a “hoax”. Apparently Texas has also redefined the killing of a teenage girl and the dumping of her body from a crime of “murder” to a simple “hoax”.

The patriarchy is fighting hard to make sure that pedophiles continue to have a free hand to rape and murder as many girls as they want, when the pedophiles shouldn’t even be alive!

~Jonathan

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Unfortunately, I don’t think legalizing polygamy would actually force these twits to be accountable for what they’re doing — as someone else pointed out above, they actually prefer not having legal marriages because they can collect all the welfare money for their single mothers. There’s no reason to assume they’d marry all their wives legally if they could, since the only thing that really counts is “sealing.”

Finally: Kate, I love you. Thank you for reminding us all that we can’t make assumptions about what people think and feel just because they don’t behave in the manner we think we would behave in a similar situation.

Hey. [rubs sleep from his eyes] *belch* Excuse me. Ummmm… Existential question of the moment: why are you folks all standing in my bedroom? I’m doing what? Hosting the 35th Carnival of the Godless? When? Now? You can’t be… Didn’t…

I registered because of the spam problem, knowing I’d want to start yakking away eventually. Damn spam.

Here’s my first post, motivated because I have GMail open in another tab, and the link at the top of the page is for Mormon Marriage Retreat. Creepy! Is Gmail scanning for context across tabs, or is Mormonism suddenly everywhere?

Mormonism–in fact, religion–is pretty creepy, and it’s fair to say religion’s been responsible for a lot of evil. However, I’m moved to point out that Orson Scott Card, a writer I enjoy, is Mormon.

Yay, I get to push the Blame button.

See, the neat thing about polyamory, as opposed to polygamy, is that it’s not male-only. “Whoop, I’ma get me a bunch of pussy!” doesn’t last long when you realize the pussy in question isn’t all yours.

Guys who see themselves as the center of a harem don’t tend to last long in polyamory.

Hey. *belch* Excuse me. I just got up– Ummmm… Existential question of the moment: why are you folks all standing in my living room? I’m doing what? Hosting the 35th Carnival of the Godless? When? Now? You can’t be… Didn’t…

This stuff all bothered me even as a little kid. It was only when I was an adult though that I realized I could just walk away. Walk away I did, and it was like being born all over again.

The LDS church is fucking insidious. Sure, some of the believers are quite nice and credit their religion for that. But even flowers sometimes sprout from bullshit. Most of the time, though, it just stinks and makes a mess.