Score one of many to come for the innocent kids. After a couple of indictments, maybe they'll outlaw sex with the underage kids, as well.
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Polygamist Sect Outlaws Underage Marriage After Return of 430 Children
Monday, June 02, 2008
SAN ANGELO, Texas � Parents of children taken by Texas authorities during a raid on a polygamist sect's ranch began to reunite with their kids Monday, hours after a state district judge ordered the immediate return of more than 400 juveniles, bringing an abrupt end to one of the largest custody cases in U.S. history.
Late Monday, Willie Jessop, an elder for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, said the church won't allow underage girls to marry. Jessop told the AP the new policy will forbid any girl to marry who is not of legal consent age in the state where she lives.
Jessop said the church has been widely misunderstood, but he said the church will not sanction marriages of underage girls and will counsel members against such unions. He insisted marriages within the church have always been consensual.
Cool--I'm glad they did that. Indeed, that may be a brilliant response to the events that have taken place surrounding the FLDS.
But.......just because the FLDS leader outlawed underage marriage, doesn't mean it was taking place--or if it was, that underage marriage was common in FLDS.
When the LDS banned polygamy over a century ago, most Morman men only had one wife--polygamist marriages were the minority. Probably a large minority, but still a minority.
Ya' think Elvis Presley would survive CPS and Nancy Grace today if he married his 14 year first cousin?.......
Casey
