Celebrate State Kidnapping Week

And kidnap some more:

[New Mexico] State police have removed four children from an apocalyptic church whose leader claims to be the Messiah and acknowledges having sex with some of his followers...

Serna said her agency received information on April 21 that warranted the removal of the children. She declined to reveal the information or its source.

So he's had sex with some of his "followers," mentioned at the very bottom of the article to be wives of other followers, not children. The first line cleverly implies the latter. So we've got some wife-swapping going on. Oh, and an "apocalyptic church." What an absurd demonization. All Christian churches are apocalyptic; the last book in the Bible bears that title. But then I guess that's where we're headed. Even worse! He claims to be the messiah. Totally unlike atheists and new age individualists, right?

Naturally, there may well be real abuse here - but we don't know what the allegations even are, let alone have any proof of them. Maybe this one will be substantiated, but even then evidence can be fabricated, not that our dear always good and benevolent states would ever do such a thing.

From the alleged-abuser:

"We have given everything to prepare them for an eternity with God. We haven't oppressed them with your atheistic globalist curriculum, socialist indoctrination, and 'alternative lifestyles' dogma that comprise modern public education. We have taught them higher values than the values of your slave-state, and have sought to shield them from the abuse that is institutionalized in your system," he wrote...

Yeah, this guy's definitely crazy. Probably supports Ron Paul, too. Better lock him up and take his kids away before anyone else gets uppity and homeschooling spreads even more.

I still don't get the modernist hang-up about polygamy. If Heather can have two mommies and that's okay, why can't she have a daddy thrown in, too?

JMM

Comments

[SBW]

Ha ha, this post is right on. While reviewing for my upcoming Con Law final, a class that borders on the ridiculous, I have been faced with certain stark observations about how "fundamentalist" this country was in its founding, and how it continues to be so today. Witness: laws sterilizing the "unfit", city zoning restrictions forbidding certain family members from living together, laws forcing Catholics to go to public school, laws forbidding and regulating who can and cannot marry, laws that take children away from their parents if the parents are not "legally married" with the state, and on and on. This current post detailing the news event is no exception. It is just another manifestation of the state functioning as a quasi-church. If you do not have a visible church that speaks on faith AND morals, then you need a heavy handed strong state to carry out your agenda. Witness the evangelicals and fundamentalists trying to legislate this and that. I think that is where you will find your basis of why the state thinks it can go after polyagamists. The state has been overrun with atheists and materialists, but there is still this last remnant of "exceptions" that the state can go after.

Modernists do not care about polygamy, bestiality, etc. They only show face that such conduct is despicable b/c they want to appear "normal" too. You mentioned "wife swapping"; good point, hey on any average night in New York politicians like Guiliani or famous Hollywood stars basically engage in the same deviancies. Modernist views on sexuality basically encourage and provide a legitimate basis for this behavior.

Ah, so this person in the renegade church is to be persecuted by the state not so much because of his behavior, but because of the threat posed by his beliefs.