Whoa! Polygamist solution is frightening...

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Newman

1. I believe but have not yet verified that the age of consent was 16 up until the community arrived and the age was changed in 2005. Will try to find out for certain later in the day.

Once it was changed, they should have complied.

2. Do you understand that this has been going on for generations and they are happy with their lives as they are? Do you understand that Texas leads the nation in teenage pregnancies? And every forth pregant teenager is having a second child? (A large percentage of these are adult fathers)?

So because teenagers are having babies, even as young as 13 or 14, should we legalize sex between adults and minors, and do away with statutory rape laws?

3. Do we take babies from all minor mothers? What if most of the family has had teenage pregnancies for generations? What if particular areas of Texas have higher concentrations of teenage pregnancies such as hispanic communities along the border?

Wrong question, Newman. If a secular woman allowed her 13 or 14 year old daughter to be married off to a 45 year old man, (or have sex with him), do you think that adult woman should be prosecuted? I do.

These people aren't being prosecuted simply because of teen pregnancies.

4. Do you understand who is pregnant right now? A seventeen year old who will be eighteen next month, a sixteen year old who is also almost 17 and finally they have counted another teenager pregnant because she refused to take the test. I don't know her age.

So they can only prosecute based on who is pregnant right now, and not based on a 16 year old who has a 2-year-old?

5. Do you understand that CPS went in and looked at more than 400 children and the most they can say about it is that they have found a pattern of abuse due to some babies being conceived to teenage mothers?

Physical abuse? No
Well fed and healthy? Remarkably so.
Tales of horror to tell? Nope not that either.

I don't know, Newman--it seems like quite a few women who have left the FLDS have "tales of horror to tell."

Why would we want to model our laws after ignorance? I'm glad there are laws that prevent old men from marrying little girls. I DO think there is a difference between a 40 year old man marrying a 14 year old girl, than if that same 14 year old girl married a 16 year old boy, or even someone her own age. The dynamics are different. I know you are looking at this from seriously legal angles, but that isn't all there is to it.