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