TEXAS POLYGAMY

TEXAS POLYGAMY

April 28, 2008

Texas Children’s Services recently (April 2008) removed over 400 children from a polygamist religious (Christian offshoot) compound in Texas. They based their assumption of jurisdiction on a telephone call from a woman who alleged specific abuse at that compound. Later it was discovered the woman lived in Colorado, the call was made from Colorado and the woman was arrested for making false reports of abuse to officials in Colorado. Even so, Texas authorities, including the judge who heard the initial evidence, refuse to give the children back to their parents. They evidently based their decision upon two legal criteria: 1) some of the mothers of these children married their husbands while under the State’s lawful age for marriage and 2) some of the mothers are married to men with multiple wives and polygamy is unlawful in Texas.

Texas did not just arrest underage mothers’ children or the children of polygamist wives. They arrested all children in the community and placed them into foster care, that is, with men and women they do not know, some of which may be married heterosexuals, single heterosexuals, gays living alone, lesbians living with their lovers, or something in between. The State thinks this is somehow better for these children than being with their parents. And the guardians ad litem appointed to represent these children evidently think so too.

The question is, what legal authority does the State have to keep these children away from their parents? A better question is, what moral authority do they have to do so?

We must face the reality that over the past two generations our nation and all states thereof have become godless, secular humanistic governments. They have no moral authority to make any decisions based upon morality because they deny all absolute criteria and standards for making such judgments. Their actual authority ultimately resides in a small group of hand-selected judges. Legislators themselves don’t matter much. I know because I have been one and have seen pro-life, anti-abortion legislation overturned by immoral, lawless judges on more than one occasion. Executive power still matters, though, because they enforce the judges’ decisions.

I recently heard a story from an acquaintance. He told me of a friend of his who was re-loading ammunition with a state trooper. He said to the trooper, "You know that fellow down the road manufactures and sells illegal drugs. Why don’t you arrest him?" Without missing a beat, the cop replied, "We only arrest who they tell us to."

Enter Texas. Who told Children’s Division and the cops to arrest 450 children and strip them from their parents? Who told the judge to keep them away from their parents? Someone told someone to make an example of this "polygamist" community. Why them? Why wasn’t it two homosexual men raising a little boy or two in their "special" ways, or two lesbians with little girls? Why wasn’t it a Muslim community? Don’t Muslims practice polygamy and didn’t Mohamed marry a nine year old girl? Politics, my friend, politics. This unlawful seizure has nothing to do with morality or Texas law or the "best interests of the child."

Another question is, who is the next target? Is it the church school or the home school that doesn’t indoctrinate their children with the State’s latest propaganda? The only people in today’s world who can be ridiculed or discriminated against with impunity are Christians. Will you be next, or are you one of our persecutors?