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This is a project that I have been personally involved with and, if you value your rights, I am hoping that you will feel to check it out and speak out. You can do so at Voices for the Children.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, at the request of Senator Harry Reid, is going to convene this week for a hearing entitled “Crimes Associated with Polygamy: The Need for a Coordinated State and Federal Response”, coming up July 24, 2008. This is an entirely speculative hearing, and the only people called to testify are outspoken critics of the FLDS people. It does not matter how you feel about polygamy or the FLDS; what matters is that you oppose government targeting like this.

Just because they are a little different from mainstream culture doesn’t mean that they are not protected by the Constitution.

Aren’t we all a little different in our own ways?

If we allow this for some of us; it’s only a matter of time before it’s any of us.

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In his open letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry and 51st District Court Judge Barbara Walther, Samuel W. Roundy illustrates the fundamentally flawed nature in which the state has gone about ‘learning about’ the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with an intriguing metaphor. Brother Roundy writes:

These people, according to their own admission, have been schooled for a year or more by lying apostates from our society. This is akin to taking the testimony of an ex-wife who has left her husband and had a bitter divorce to find out what his character is like without using any other source of information.

I would like to take this metaphor a step further.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand, and a mind divided against itself cannot write. Having taken a stance in behalf of the FLDS at a time when the church into which I was baptized 13 years ago has taken a bafflingly aggresive public stance against them has placed me in a very awkward situation. I can’t help but wonder if the leaders of my church are as misinformed about these people as it seems most everyone but their few-and-far-between allies is these days, for the Spirit has whispered to me gently but intently that I was to seek out understanding, that I was to learn about them and their ways. As I followed that personal prompting, a most amazing thing happened. I found that as one allegation after another began to fall away, the people I thought I was learning about bore little to no resemblance to who they actually are. I have been blessed to learn about them, and even to get to know some of them. I have come to love these people.

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