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I have not thought a great deal about the recent polygamy thing in Texas which has been in the news a fair bit recently (this is where 52 girls were removed from a ranch in Texas and put into care and foster-homes following allegations of abuse) because this kind of thing goes on over in wacky old America, right?
I have not thought a great deal about it until….. until last night….. last night the number of children went up by one when one of the girls, a 16 year old, gave birth. Apparently she is not the only pregnant child.
I don’t like religion at the best of times but when it is when it is used as an excuse for the in inexcusable it really gets to me; bombings, terrorism, war, murder repression, oppression….. child abuse.
In the UK we have an expression (I don’t know if it is used in the US) which says that “you can’t polish a turd” and it means “shit is shit no matter how you try to hide what it is”.
Well, for a moment I think these polygamist folks almost managed it with me, they have gone on a big PR offensive and, to tell you the truth, I was not paying that much attention in the first place.
They have tried to take polygamy and dress it up as “religion” and “freedom” when what it really is about is a few older men surrounding themselves with small armies of poorly educated, brainwashed, compliant women; don’t be fooled by their weasel-words, it is not “religion” or “freedom”, it is abuse.
And in this particular case, and numerous others, “religion” and “freedom” is really about being allowed to “marry” and have sex with young girls. It is a cynical attempt at dressing up paedophilia as something virtuous and somehow acceptable.
But you cant polish a turd.
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http://the-discourses.blogspot.com/2008/05/texas-surpreme-court-endorses.html
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