In all the images I've seen from the Texas polygamist compound raid, I've seen only pictures of women and children. WHERE are the men and why weren't any of them taken into custody?
I have a lot of thoughts about this whole issue and I certainly don't think that there are any clear answers but really- WHERE ARE THE MEN?
My basic feeling is that if girls are being given to men as "brides" then this is a clear-cut case of child sexual abuse. Fuck freedom of religion because that's just a bullshit cover for what it really is- the abuse and rape of girls. And from what I hear, the young boys are pushed out of the compound to fend for themselves at an early age to prevent them from competing for the available female children. This too, is abuse, if it is true.
Frankly, I don't care at all how many consenting ADULTS want to enter into a marriage together. But they have to be consenting and they have to be adults.
In a situation like this where religion has obviously been used to brainwash the members, I don't know that "consenting" could actually be possible or proven, but you sure as hell can prove that girls below the age of eighteen are being used as sexual partners for men two and three times their age.
The idea of children being separated from their mothers makes me weep but obviously, these mothers are not protecting their children, whether through ignorance or belief in some sort of fucked-up ideologist brain-washing, so perhaps it is, in this case, the right thing to do.
I don't know, I'm not sure, but again I ask- where are the men?
