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> "John Galt" <whoisjohngalt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Yes, you're not free to abuse children simply because your religion
says
>> it's OK.
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> So it's not ok to mutilate the genitals of children for religious
reasons?
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> Mazel Tov !
And......that comparison seems SANE to you?
Please.
JG
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>>>> 52 girls taken from polygamous sect in Texas
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>>>> By Bill Hanna . McClatchy Newspapers . April 4, 2008
>>>>
>>>> FORT WORTH, Texas -- A total of 52 girls were removed today from a
>>>> polygamous sect's compound near Eldorado in Schleicher County,
>>>> Texas, -- 18 of them legally, while the rest were being questioned
>>>> this afternoon by Child Protective Services caseworkers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All the children have been confirmed to be girls ranging from 6
months
>>>> to 17 years old, according to CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins.
>>>>
>>>> Crimmins said all the children will be placed in foster homes.
>>>>
>>>> "We're assessing their needs and making arrangements for their
>>>> placement," Crimmins said. "The caseworkers need to have an
op****tunity
>>>> to assess their needs and try to find out what the appropriate action
>>>> will be."
>>>>
>>>> The children were taken in two small buses to an undisclosed location
>>>> in San Angelo, 45 miles north of the compound.
>>>>
>>>> No arrests have been made.
>>>>
>>>> Schleicher County Justice of the Peace James Doyle, who arraigns
>>>> suspects brought to the Schleicher County Jail, said no one has been
>>>> brought into the jail.
>>>>
>>>> "We don't know anything," Doyle said.
>>>>
>>>> Randy Mankin, editor of the Eldorado Success, said the roadblocks
>>>> remain on the roads leading to the ranch.
>>>>
>>>> Surveillance of the YFZ Ranch, which is owned by the Fundamentalist
>>>> Church of Latter Day Saints and led by Warren Jeffs, began Thursday
>>>> afternoon and continued throughout the night, Texas Department of
>>>> Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger said.
>>>>
>>>> Around midnight, Child Protective Services investigators entered the
>>>> compound, located about 45 miles south of San Angelo, and began
>>>> questioning members of the sect.
>>>>
>>>> This afternoon, a bus left the compound with children in it.
>>>>
>>>> Vinger described the sect followers as "very cooperative" and that
the
>>>> group is "providing all of the people we need to talk to" about the
>>>> complaint.
>>>>
>>>> Vinger said authorities have implemented flight restrictions to
prevent
>>>> anyone from flying over the compound and said the Texas Rangers are
>>>> also involved.
>>>>
>>>> The sect bought the 1,691-acre ranch in 2003.
>>>>
>>>> The group began building a temple and other buildings on the remote
>>>> ranchland. Jeffs, who was considered their prophet, was arrested near
>>>> Las Vegas in 2006 and was sentenced to consecutive life sentences in
>>>> November in Utah for his role in arranging the marriage of teenage
>>>> cousins. He also faces federal charges in Arizona and Utah.
>>>>
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