I’m so glad someone in Texas is being reasonable. Today the Texas supreme court ordered CPS (Child Protective Services) to give back the more than 400 children it took from a religious sect.
Scott and I have been watching this story and from the beginning I’ve been shocked that more people all over the U.S. are not up in arms over how easily CPS waltzed in to this community and all but stole their children. As the court sessions started coming out, more and more detail leaked about how the instigating phone call was a fake, the pregnant minors were really not minors (some as old as 26) and there was *no* proof of any child abuse happening to these children.
I’m not super religious, and I don’t agree with the principles behind the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ religion, but I do think parents have the right to raise their children without interference from the government. Just imagine how much damage being yanked away from the only culture and family these 400 kids have ever known has done. I’d say it’s far worse than anything the church could have ever come up with.
-Meg
It’s always nicer to write about something good rather than something upsetting but I’m feeling very strongly about the issues these Dutch “parents” must have after reading this story. The gist of it is that a Dutch consul and his wife adopted a Korean baby girl when he was stationed in Hong Kong over 6 years ago. Now that the girl is 7 and the consul is no longer posted in an Asian nation they have given the girl back for re-adoption. I’m just hurt for the girl, enraged at the parents and disgusted that anyone could be so callous. Children are for always, and I can’t believe anyone wouldn’t be able to understand that. Read the story if you’re up for it.
-Meg
Seriously…for anyone that watched the Pats/Colts game, what the heck is with offensive pass interference. I had no idea you could get into so much trouble for trying to catch the ball being thrown to you. Go Colts refs, way to make a new type of ridiculous call-
This edition is for Meg.
She is so worked up for Sundays game against the Colts. Go Pats!
Every citizen could get a 401(k) retirement account and up to $1,000 in annual matching funds from the government under a plan offered Tuesday by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Where do these ideas come from?
How much in taxes do you think this proposal would require? $2,000, $3,000 a person?