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Originally Posted by Drolefille
There is a lot of "Look the other way" and "don't ask questions" involved here though. Tell me that people weren't aware that the giant compound was an FLDS site. Not that, particularly in TX, it's the LDS who are looking the other way, but civil authorities are.
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So various legal authorities are looking the other way. But Mormons live all over, not just in Utah...what I objected to in EE-BO's statement was that ALL Mormons have been complicit in child molestation, which I believe is completely bogus. My Mormon friends up here in Washington state had very normal childhoods and interacted/played with all the other kids, and lived in normal houses with their families. The only obvious difference to many of us was that they spent nearly all day on Sunday in church and at home with their family. I think it's wrong for people to say that the Mormon church should be held responsible for a cult that broke off of it a century ago. There are few denominations that can probably say that they never inspired a cult; I'm going to guess that most cult founders grew up in a church or religious order of some kind...does that mean that their inherited denomination is responsible for the cult's beliefs and actions?
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