04-26-2008, 12:27 PM
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The logic seems to be tied to scale. Distrusting the state's unwelcome involvement with that many children. It seems most would agree it's okay to intervene in a case involving three or four people; one family. If that's the case, then the same sense of justice should apply regardless of scale, and it's equally within the state's authority to intervene even if it involves hundreds.
Religion and civil rights arguments are no more of a shield for a large cult group that makes headlines than for a small non-cult group that doesn't make headlines. Abuse is abuse either way. Would the same charges of injustice be leveled at overzealous Texas state authorities if the cult family were only five people? I'm suggesting no one would care, or they'd support the authorities. A car full of kids, it's okay. A busload of kids? No way, then it's not okay, it's a 'violation' of the parent's civil rights.
Where are you getting this? It's got nothing to do with my objections.
These kids are going to end up abused in foster homes.
The logic seems to be tied to scale. Distrusting the state's unwelcome involvement with that many children. It seems most would agree it's okay to intervene in a case involving three or four people; one family. If that's the case, then the same sense of justice should apply regardless of scale, and it's equally within the state's authority to intervene even if it involves hundreds.
Religion and civil rights arguments are no more of a shield for a large cult group that makes headlines than for a small non-cult group that doesn't make headlines. Abuse is abuse either way. Would the same charges of injustice be leveled at overzealous Texas state authorities if the cult family were only five people? I'm suggesting no one would care, or they'd support the authorities. A car full of kids, it's okay. A busload of kids? No way, then it's not okay, it's a 'violation' of the parent's civil rights.
Where are you getting this? It's got nothing to do with my objections.
These kids are going to end up abused in foster homes.