Warning: Ranting......

Normally, I like to write about things that are positive and upbeat.  But I have to get something off my chest. 

What the HECK is up with these FLDS women ???!?!

Okay....at first I had some really great jokes about the hair.  I mean, seriously, what is up with choosing hair like that.  It reminds me of a satellite dish that my father in law had in his backyard that picked up 982 channels. 

Then I read that it signifies that she is more "spiritual" than her sister wives.  (Or puts her 6" closer to God.)

Hmmm.  In the 80's the super glued bangs must have sprouted some Arch Bishops or Pope's.   

And my personal opinion is that any man stupid enough to have fifteen wives DESERVES the fifteen rounds of PMS that are bound to cycle through that place.  (Can I get an AMEN, Chad??) It's a miracle that no one has strangled one of those creeps.  Or perhaps the reason they are so tightly controlled.  To keep them from killing the men.

But what I really want to know is why aren't these women in orange jumpsuits and shackles instead of prairie garb for giving their 12, 13, 14 year old daughters to men old enough to be their grandfathers?  I remember when my own daughter was that age and starting to date.  We did everything but an FBI background check on anyone who dared call the house.  My husband actually had 8 shotgun shells lined up on the mantel with names on them at one point (part of a story for another time), and one young man probably will never be the same after Daddy Dear stepped out of the shadows as he was leaving our porch for a little "chat".  Just keeping them on their toes.  We watched.  We protected. 

But these CHILDREN are given to pedophiles under the name of "god" as something "holy".  (capital "g" left out intentionally.)  I cannot fathom why a mother would think it is okay to give her daughter's innocence to someone neither one of them know.  And I feel SORRY for them that they think that to get to God and to find favor with Him that you must follow so many rules and rituals.  It is sad to think that if you cut your hair, they believe you receive a lesser position in heaven.  That showing skin other than your hands or face, or telling a pervert no will result in you burning in hell.

What I do know is this:  The God that I believe in, the God that I love and serve, who loved me so much he sent his only Son, who died for my sins, who cares about the next breath that I take and about yours, too.  That the same God that is the Source for all things wonderful and beautiful and good and holy, is stronger than all of that.  He would NEVER ask that we take from our children their choice, their life, their spirit and give it to men they do not know or care about for the strangers pleasure.  Look at the vacant stare and the overly rehearsed answers. I don't care how you paint the picture, how you dress that pig up and parade it through town, the FACTS are that the Bible says we are to "let our light shine" and to be examples and to "go to all the earth preaching the Good news". 

Not holed up in some commune and allow the very life to be sucked out of our children. Not hide and keep ourselves away, judging and looking down our noses and teaching our kids that they will lose their eternal soul for showing an ankle.  Or the girl that made the call that started the whole thing asking "if you get me out of here will the black people hurt me?".  The same God that made you, made them.  He just doesn't make them pay for tanning.  What these people have done, and I realize it goes back generations for some, is terrible.  These nut jobs from Dumbbutt Texas make anyone who claims to be a Christian look bad. 

But God does love them.  Not the sin, but the sinner. 

And for that kind of care and passion from a loving and just God.....I am eternally grateful.