Thought from the News
Apr. 18th, 2008 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spazzychicThere is so much very very wrong with the Texas polygamous sect. But something from the Yahoo article caught my eye: "This is a population of women who appear to have a problem making a decision on their own," Voss said.
In response, the FLDS women, dressed in long, pioneer-style dresses with their hair swept up in braids, groaned in chorus with their dark-suited attorneys.
Walsh disputed that young girls have no say in who they marry.
"Basically, they're into match-making," he said of the sect, adding that girls who have refused matches have not been expelled.
"I believe the girls are given a real choice. Girls have successfully said, 'No, this is not a good match for me,' and they remained in good standing," he said.
Perry testified that the girls he interviewed said they freely chose to marry young. But he said those choices were based on lessons drilled into them from birth.
"Obedience is a very important element of their belief system," he said. "Compliance is being godly; it's part of their honoring God."
If a woman is taught to be submissive and accept the direction and will of their male counterparts, is that abuse?
I mean, if young children are taught to submit to the will whomever then they are from that point lead and taken care of by people who are not abusive...are they abused anyway, by nature of being given no choice?
This of course can be switched in gender or whatnot, but it's an interesting thought. If they weren't involved with multi-generational indoctrinated polygamy, would the fact that girls were matched up by authority figures to be wed at the earliest legal age be a problem?
Amber
In response, the FLDS women, dressed in long, pioneer-style dresses with their hair swept up in braids, groaned in chorus with their dark-suited attorneys.
Walsh disputed that young girls have no say in who they marry.
"Basically, they're into match-making," he said of the sect, adding that girls who have refused matches have not been expelled.
"I believe the girls are given a real choice. Girls have successfully said, 'No, this is not a good match for me,' and they remained in good standing," he said.
Perry testified that the girls he interviewed said they freely chose to marry young. But he said those choices were based on lessons drilled into them from birth.
"Obedience is a very important element of their belief system," he said. "Compliance is being godly; it's part of their honoring God."
If a woman is taught to be submissive and accept the direction and will of their male counterparts, is that abuse?
I mean, if young children are taught to submit to the will whomever then they are from that point lead and taken care of by people who are not abusive...are they abused anyway, by nature of being given no choice?
This of course can be switched in gender or whatnot, but it's an interesting thought. If they weren't involved with multi-generational indoctrinated polygamy, would the fact that girls were matched up by authority figures to be wed at the earliest legal age be a problem?
Amber
