Whoa, Chief...

You want me to slow down?

I am just as ready to question the policies and procedures behind the Texas authorities' raid on the FLDS "temple" as I am the Reno's "Branch Davidians" disaster in 1993... but let's be honest, okay?

These are not just a bunch of excentric, God-fearing Christians here.

One of the former "prophets" of this particular branch of LDS faith is known to have had at least 60 children with no fewer than 22 wives... eleven of which were his own first cousins. Of his 60 "confirmed" children, 21 suffered from genetic fumarase defeciancy which causes severe retardation in children and is due exclusively to incestuous inbreeding.

The current "prophet" of the FLDS (Warren Jeffs) is currently serving a "10 year to life" term in a Federal prison for two counts of aggrevated rape. This conviction came after landing his face on the nation's "10 Most Wanted" list for nearly 18 months.

This particular branch of the LDS faith has been raided or sued by various agencies and indivduals since it was founded in 1930, for such varied and seemingly henious crimes as child abuse, neglect, rape, kidnapping, insurrection, and even hate crimes. Mr. Jeffs, the "prophet" has stated very clearly that "the black race is the people through which the devil has always been able to bring evil unto the earth" and that the only means to address this "evil" is blood attonement... in other words, the sacrifice of those guilty of bringing the evil into the world.

Then, of course, we come to the simple fact that "plural marriages" or polygamy is ILLEGAL in the United States of America. It is illegal to practice a polygamist lifestyle (common-law relationships without actual marriage licenses) in every single state that the FLDS maintains a presense in... AZ, UT and TX. This means that more than 6,000 people associated with this branch of the LDS faith are openly breaking the law. What happened to "enforcement first"?

I'd think you'd want as much distance between these people and the world "legitimate" as you could find, seeing as how they are simply making it more difficult for "law-abiding" Mormons like you and Mitt Romney to function legitimately in society.

Kind of how the 79,000 priests of the Roman Catholic faith that HAVEN'T abused children must feel about the 4,392 priests that did commit the crime since 1950.