Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 21, 2008

The Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints, or FLDS Church, is an offshoot of the Mormon Church that still practices polygamy. Its doctrines are anti-biblical, its organization cultish, and at least some of its male leaders may have committed statutory rape. But nothing justifies the wholesale abduction of 416 of that community?s children by the state of Texas.

In early April, child welfare officials, with the help of a paramilitary strike team, raided the FLDS complex in El Dorado. They acted on a warrant based on an alleged phone call from an abused 16-year-old polygamous wife. That call was a hoax committed by a disturbed woman in Colorado. Despite that fact a judge has taken all of the community?s children into state custody.

Texas officials now plan to distribute those children to foster homes in several states, and force them to undergo DNA testing.

Repellent as the FLDS cult?s teachings may be, the totalitarian tactics of the Texas government are immeasurably worse.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free