Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful Keith F. Lynch 
declared:
> David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I've been following the Texas polygamy case with interest and
>> commenting on it on my blog.  The first comparison that occurred to
>> me was with the 19th century Oneida community, which practiced an
>> much more bizarre marriage system--everyone married to everyone.
>> The FLDS is accused of matching up young women with older men;
>> Oneida not only did it (and young men with older women) but openly
>> described and advocated their system. ...
> 
>> One possibility is that the 21st century is less tolerant, at least
>> in some dimensions, than the 19th.
> 
> My understanding is that numerous young women in FLDS are saying their
> marriages are not consensual -- in other words, that FLDS is basically
> a criminal gang specializing in rape.  If these accusations are borne
> out, people are right to be intolerant of FLDS.
> 

I haven't seen anything like that. There's the girl who called in a 
complaint against the compound, but she can't be found. There are 
the underage girls who've been taken into custody, but they're being 
kept away from the press -- though even if they do "consent" to the 
marriages, their age nullifies it. And there are the adult FLDS 
women who talk like Stepford Wives and claim there's nothing illegal 
was happening at the compound.

The only people connected to the FLDS that I've seen speak out 
against it are men who were kicked out so the elders could keep the 
male/female ratio under 1:1.

-- 
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