Comments on: another thing about the polygamist’s sect http://skdunning.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/another-thing-about-the-polygamists-sect/ "keep us comatose but audible." Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:48:23 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Brenda Dunning http://skdunning.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/another-thing-about-the-polygamists-sect/#comment-144 Brenda Dunning Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:37:15 +0000 http://skdunning.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-144 Great assessment of a very complex situation. Unfortunately many evil things have been done in the name of Religion which reinforces the absolute necessity for separation of Church and State. We are very fortunate that our forefathers recognized this need when they wrote our Constitution! Great Blog! Keep up the good work! Great assessment of a very complex situation. Unfortunately many evil things have been done in the name of Religion which reinforces the absolute necessity for separation of Church and State. We are very fortunate that our forefathers recognized this need when they wrote our Constitution! Great Blog! Keep up the good work!

]]> By: skdunning http://skdunning.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/another-thing-about-the-polygamists-sect/#comment-142 skdunning Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:13:17 +0000 http://skdunning.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-142 I do agree with what you said about the women having an excuse; what I meant when I wrote the sentence you quoted was that these men told these women lies and "diets of crap", while 2 were arrested for trying to obstruct a raid of the very thing they started. I do agree with what you said about the women having an excuse; what I meant when I wrote the sentence you quoted was that these men told these women lies and “diets of crap”, while 2 were arrested for trying to obstruct a raid of the very thing they started.

]]> By: Madrocketscientist http://skdunning.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/another-thing-about-the-polygamists-sect/#comment-141 Madrocketscientist Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:12:08 +0000 http://skdunning.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-141 "However…by bringing this upon yourselves, by knowingly breaking a law-what did they expect?" Do keep in mind that some of those women, many of them in fact, are so thoroughly isolated and conditioned that they either did not know that they were breaking the law, or truly believed that they had a duty akin to civil rights activists to obey God and their husbands before the law. I'm not excusing their behavior, only explaining it. There is a subtle difference between breaking the law for your own gratification, and doing it because you believe it is the right thing to do. The men, on the other hand, deserve whatever they get, because they were not isolated and fed a diet of crap, they knew they were breaking the law and decided to thumb their noses at the rest of us. "religion isn’t an excuse for breaking a law, nor is it a reason to create one." No truer words “However…by bringing this upon yourselves, by knowingly breaking a law-what did they expect?”

Do keep in mind that some of those women, many of them in fact, are so thoroughly isolated and conditioned that they either did not know that they were breaking the law, or truly believed that they had a duty akin to civil rights activists to obey God and their husbands before the law. I’m not excusing their behavior, only explaining it. There is a subtle difference between breaking the law for your own gratification, and doing it because you believe it is the right thing to do. The men, on the other hand, deserve whatever they get, because they were not isolated and fed a diet of crap, they knew they were breaking the law and decided to thumb their noses at the rest of us.

“religion isn’t an excuse for breaking a law, nor is it a reason to create one.”

No truer words

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