State of Texas Trying to appeal the appeal already !!!!!

PEOPLE ARE BRAINWASHED BY THE MEDIA, SENSATIONALISM.......

Please spell out your friends(or ex-friends) logic, as to why these children are in danger, and why you are wrong. We must know how the masses think, before we can successfully de-program them

But don't worry! The legislature is coming up with a plan to make the parents and the church pay for their own kidnapping!

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/49728

Excerpted from the article:

State may try to seize sect's assets
By JOHN MORITZ
jmoritz@star-telegram.com

AUSTIN — With the price care for the more than 400
children seized last month from the polygamist ranch
in West Texas expected to reach into the tens of
million of dollars, a legislative panel on Tuesday
suggested that the state explore the possibility of
garnishing the religious organization's assets to
recoup the costs.
"That compound didn't grow out of fairy dust," state
Sen. Robert Deuell, R-Greenville, said after a Senate
Finance Committee hearing where he urged state health
officials to determine whether members of the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints (FLDS), or even the sect as a whole, be held
responsible for the cost of care. "Why should we be
footing the bill when they've got assets?"
The remarks came after the panel heard testimony that
providing foster care, Medicaid coverage and casework
for the children from the YFZ (Yearning For Zion)
Ranch will likely cost taxpayers more than $1.7
million a month for as long as they are in state
custody. The figure does not include the $5.3 million
for the first six weeks of the operation or the cost
of providing the required legal representation for
each child, which is likely to total at least $2.2
million.

I want to say it, for I haven't outright said it probably: I admire the FLDS people. Yes, I admire them.

I admire them for:

* their commitment to maintaining in health and purity the temple that is their bodies. Their religious commitment to treating their bodies as sacred, and eating whole, healthy foods, most home made and home grown.

* They avoid as much as possible foreign substances, unneedful medications (vaccinations for one). Any 27 or 29 year old woman who is accused of being 14 or 15 would be flattered under circumstances other than CPS custody issues. Eating healthy and avoid unnecessary chemicals in your body allows one to maintain a great shape, even after multiple births, maintain a youthful appearance, and to maintain strength and vigour.

* their strong devotion to their children and their families. This should go without saying, but they are extremely family oriented. Anyone who looks at the pictures and home movies on www.captivefldschildren.org will readily see this devotion to family.

* their strong devotion and commitment to each other as a faith community. This has been mocked and used as a source of derision, especially in the media. They are called cultish and insular, but this is not true at all. They believe in the scriptures of the new testament, where loving one's neighbor is second only to loving God. They believe in the Book of Mormon which says that when we are serving our fellow men it is as though we are serving God himself. Jesus Christ said a similar thing in the New Testament. Also, they practice the words of Paul in Romans who said the saints are to "prefer one another" over themselves, and also the scriptures which call for the saints to be in one accord. These are things that are easier preached than practiced. But from what I have seen, these folks do a very good job of practicing them.
* the devotion to peace, Unnecessary conflict and strife are avoided in the FLDS culture. An attitude of peace prevails. The golden rule rules.
* there are other things, too, but I will stop for now.

Of course, not every single individual member of that church lives up to the ideal in all things. There are strong members, weak members, doubting members, and all manner of varying degrees of faith and the practice thereof. But the ideal to which the faith strives to attain is one that I admire, and I admire those who strive to perfect themselves, to be perfect even as Christ is, and as he has commanded Christians to be.

I don't mean to get too preachy, but I wish to add my witness to the court of public opinion that this is a peaceful, family-oriented religion; that these people's religion asks them to strive to live Godly lives, peaceful lives, full of love for one another. It breaks my heart to see the slanders repeated day in and day out, as if they were true.

I am equally grateful for the Ron Paul community. In fact, it was on this very site that I first learned about the raid. I had not seen it in the news until I saw a post from "doctor011" (I think that is the screen name, my apologies if I am incorrect) who posted the news to this very site of the raid. From that moment, I knew the Ron Paul community was going to rally to the defense of the Constitutional rights of this persecuted people.

You all deserve a bit pat on the back for your defense of their rights, even though I know their religion turns many of you off. Even though some of you are atheists or agnostics, and have no use for religion personally, you have stood by these people, and written letters, made countless phone calls, and done all you could to help. Even though many of you who are Christians see the Mormon religion and its fundamentalists as a false religion, you have stood up for the rights of others, and for that I thank you, also. I also know of quite a few mainstream LDS members who are also Ron Paul supporters, who have gone against the tide and dared to support your fundamentalist "cousins", even though your (our) own church has a beef with them. Any LDS people who have fought for the rights of the FLDS have made me feel so much more faith in the people of my own church, that there is some hope that they can truly put into action our Eleventh Article of Faith.