mollymalone
Former Member
I've read the history, and yes,I have a poster on another forum who said this:
So you think FLDS is just a big phony baloney front organization for a secret society of pedophiles?
Maybe instead of reading current news all day, you should take a 1/2 hour break and read some of the history of the mormon church. I think it might help your perpective on the mentality of these people. I'm not saying I know that these guys AREN'T a bunch of pedophiles covering their activities with religion, but I'm just saying that when you really don't know, all you can do is pidgeon-hole them out of your own perspective. And unless your perspective is enhanced with contextual/cultural/historical knowledge, it sounds like the blind judgment of ignorance.
post # 261 here:
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=253&nav=messages&webtag=ab-crime&tid=19167
Would love to know what you all think of this post.
the FLDS may in the beginning have broken off from the main church and kept to the religious
teachings as a "church."
However, IMO over time their mentality is that they have twisted the teachings to fit their
own agendas to include fraud and rampant sexual abuse. Having vivid imaginations and
teaching that the men will have a planet and rule as a God is no crime, and each can believe
what they wish. This sect however is discriminatory against women, children, African Americans,
not to mention the rest of us, and they routinely deprive their followers their basic human rights.
I grew up with friends who were Mormon and from what I observed within their home and of
their beliefs, child abuse, sexual or otherwise was not one of the main tenets of their doctrine.
There's been splits within the FLDS itself, with some refusing to follow the more restrictive
dictates of the FLDS leaders, so the mentality of the group as a whole is subject to change
depending on who leads. Polygamy, if between consenting adults is one thing, but
forcing by beating, threatening or coercing them or the women into it is brutality.
Edited to add: What this church did in the past as practice can be judged by the times
and social mores that existed THEN. Today is NOW and the practices they have been
doing are NOT legal nor are they morally accepted by society. It can and is being judged
by what they do NOW, not on their history.