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Who's to blame for the Eldorado mess? How about the Apostle Paul?

By Gritsforbreakfast

The Washington Post today called the Eldorado case an "unusual prosecution of a way of life." The story focuses on the crux of my own discomfort with all this - that past the bogus headlines about abuse, this case (we still need to settle on a name for this quagmire) is really about a national discomfort with a culture in which a girl's highest calling is to start bearing children early and often. The Post called it: a legal fight with a twist. The state will argue that the sect's children are at risk at the compound, but not because every one of them has been physically or sexually abused. Instead, they will say that the culture of the church, which encouraged girls to marry and bear children in their early teens, was a danger to any child immersed in it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).