Polygamist Sect in Texas Gets Their Children Back

Thank goodness for this decision. I think it is amazingly appalling that this case was handled the way it was. Granted I don't agree with anyone under 18 having sex with anyone over 18 and so of course I support any child in that circumstance being moved from it and the adult being punished. It seems pretty clear to me however that the whole thing was all done because someone who didn't understand or agree with religious freedom and/or polygamy reported this case and a bunch of authorities who feel the same way ran with it. I wouldn't say this accept for that we know in ALL of the other cases where someone is reported as sleeping with children they do not immediately run in and steal the child away to "protect" them. If that were the case then there would be a hell of a lot more survivors of child molestation of one sort or another who were happier than they are now because they were taken out of the places they were in quickly. We know that isn't true. I went to middle school with someone who had been abused their entire life and didn't get any help until after she started college. Where are the authorities when religion isn't involved is what I want to know. I have to say that I have no problem with polygamy as long as everyone involved is consentual and of legal voting age. So with regards to this particular sect and others like it I would say abide by that and there will be all the support in the world coming from me.

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Mildred Loving Dies At Age 68

I am sad to say that Mildred Loving died on May 2. For those of you who don't know who Mildred Loving is, she fought the Supreme Court and won ending the ban on interacial marriages. She was angered by being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man so she fought the fight that was the landmark case striking down the last of the segregation laws to remain on the books - those requiring the separation of races in marriage. She died of pneumonia. The incident that caused the case to begin in the first place was quite appalling. Acting on an anonymous tip police busted into the bedroom of the couple as they lay together 5 weeks after their marriage and demanded to know who the woman Mr. Loving was sleeping with. Mildred Loving replied "I'm his wife" and pointed to the marriage certificate on the wall. To that the police replied "that's no good here." And so it all began. Though the Supreme Court struck down miscegenation laws many states were rebelliously slow to actually take the laws off their books. Alabama didn't remove their law from the books until the year 2000. Mrs. Loving stopped giving interviews but last year she issued a statement on the 40th anniversary of the announcement of the Supreme Court Ruling, urging that gay men and lesbians be allowed to marry. Rest in Peace Mrs. Loving, Rest in Peace.

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