from the bbc, ”Court overrules Texas sect raid”:
An appeal court has ruled that US officials had no right to seize 463 children from a polygamist sect in western Texas last month.
The court said that the reasons given for the children’s removal were “legally and factually insufficient”.
But it did not immediately order the return of the children to the ranch.
the court’s actual ruling is here: 3rd Court.pdf
personally, i think it’s a shame that a cult, whose beliefs are such that “there is no age at which a girl is too young to be married”, can exist. colour this a victory for pedophiles everywhere. :( if you want to be a pedophile, just start a church.... or join the flds.
a telling “cartoon” straight off the flds site, http://www.truthwillprevail.org. (blech)
update: 09/30/08 - it appears that the flds site is trying to ~clean up their act~, as the image is no longer available on their site. they won’t get off that easy, though, the intarwebs came through:
you created it, don’t go gettin’ all shy now, flds.
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