http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/08/30/will-warren-jeffs-arrest-affect-canadian-mormons/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:32:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/08/30/will-warren-jeffs-arrest-affect-canadian-mormons/#comment-40339 Anel Abrough Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:48:29 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=2644#comment-40339 If we let this guy get away with crimes under the name of religion, then the abuse cases of the Catholic priests should be named a religious experience and leave it at that. Crime is crime, no matter within or without a religious heading over it. Sex with a minor is a crime. This is why Waco happened, because some nut job wants society to operate his way, and don't you know, it usually involves teenage girls? Women aren't supposed to be treated like this in an industrialized nation, we are supposed to have gotten past this kind of sexist treatment. Hypothetical: Why not marry 4 or 5 men to one woman? Why not marry the boys off at age 13 or 14? Why not put men in the house under wraps and not let them get educated or socialized, and make them keep the tempatation of their masculinity under layers of cloth? Rope it all under a religious name and call it ordained. But no, the reality is just the same old thing of men abusing their women and their power yet again for their personal gratification. That is what Jeffs and his "religion" boils down to. If we let this guy get away with crimes under the name of religion, then the abuse cases of the Catholic priests should be named a religious experience and leave it at that. Crime is crime, no matter within or without a religious heading over it. Sex with a minor is a crime. This is why Waco happened, because some nut job wants society to operate his way, and don’t you know, it usually involves teenage girls? Women aren’t supposed to be treated like this in an industrialized nation, we are supposed to have gotten past this kind of sexist treatment. Hypothetical: Why not marry 4 or 5 men to one woman? Why not marry the boys off at age 13 or 14? Why not put men in the house under wraps and not let them get educated or socialized, and make them keep the tempatation of their masculinity under layers of cloth? Rope it all under a religious name and call it ordained. But no, the reality is just the same old thing of men abusing their women and their power yet again for their personal gratification. That is what Jeffs and his “religion” boils down to.

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