I haven’t written about or even heard much about the FLDS in quite some time now, and have been considering just putting this particular blog on standby, as I haven’t had time to do much with it.  We’ve spent the last few months relcating to a more remote location and I’ve not had time sufficient to pay much attention. 

However, last night I was listening to a lecture from the Witherspoon School of Law & Public Policy 2008, entitled “The State of Parental Rights in Light of the Texas Polygamy Case” (highly recommended), and wondering about the real motivations behind the raid on the FLDS in Eldorado.   It is quite obvious to anyone with half a brain that the health, safety and welfare of those children were NOT the main concern of CPS.  What was, exactly? 

This morning I read at  Occidental Dissent the following:

National Geographic has written a relatively balanced and comprehensive article on the FLDS (Fundamentalist Mormon) communities throughout the American Southwest. They’re explicitly racial, have one of the highest fertility rates in the world, are completely self-sufficient, and leverage media and technology in defense of tradition and family rather than against it. The government and the media are becoming increasingly concerned about and focused on Latter-Day Saint movement for good reason: it poses the last credible threat to their hegemony in the West.

Interesting.  We have with the FLDS a basic tribal structure (RESILIENT COMMUNITY ?), which is ideologically opposed to and operating independently of (to the best of their abilities I’ll assume) the dominant corporate state system, whose religion is secular humanism.  Thus, the FLDS are understandably persecuted by that system.  You may wonder how I say that this is understandable.  I did not say it is right, simply understandable.  I’ll quote Rushdoony here, from his introduction to The Institutes of Biblical Law Vol. I.

Fifth, there can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion.  Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new tolerance.  Legal positivism, a humanistic faith, has been savage in it’s hostility to the Biblical law-system and has claimed to be an “open” system.  But Cohen, by no means a Christian, has aptly described the logical positivists as “nihilists” and their faith as “nihilistic absolutism.”  Every law-system must maintain it’s existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations, or else it commits suicide.

I guess I return to the same conclusions I had reached before, but feel as though it is incomplete.  Regardless, the idea of persecution by the state is something for those of us who are rebuilding the tribes from the ground up to strongly consider.  Contingency plans are needed.

However you look at it, all of those FLDS children who were kidnapped by the State of Texas will most probably be scarred for life by the State’s actions, and have most certainly lost their innocence for good.  Even though I do not share their theological perspectives, I still pray for healing, in their hearts and in their homes. 

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