Here is a national tragedy. Texas authorities seized 450 church children based on allegations they were all in danger of sexual abuse.
Those parents are hard working, cleanly attired along with their children whom they train diligently to love work, and they are prosperous as a community. There were no criminals among them until the State of Texas criminalized their way of life.
There is a growing encroachment upon the freedom of religion in America. This case exemplies it.
The Sect moved into its property just a couple of years ago and
speedily built it up to where their productivity is amazing to the
eye. They don't have time for crime. They are not manufacturing
criminals like modern day American society is among its rich and
its poor. How then does the hypocritical State of Texas think
they have the self righteous right to violate the group's
unusual practice of religion?
The issue of multiple wives is a little too much for the self righteous in Texas in an obvious case of government persecution. But where were believers thoughout the nation while this persecution was taking place in the national media?
Watching the news and reading about it while doing nothing. Why? Our rights to practice our faith according to our understanding of the Scriptures was under attack and not one well known religious leader stood up for the sect.
Polygamy is a dirty word in America. But were we open minded, we would call to mind how David and Solomon had many wives and were counted righteous in the sight of God.
Another thorn in the flesh is what Texas authorities are calling childhood marriages. If all of the addiction to fashions, games, premarital sex, drunkeness and drugs is by passed by marrying off teenagers; why would anyone want to second guess a sect that is essentially free of those sins? Do they not have THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION right in the Constitution too?
Open your minds dear believer. No-one is asking you to be a polygamist, but it has been their culture quite a long time.
Here's the bottom line. The churches in America are asleep to righteousness. When a group is labeled a cult, they suddenly find their freedom of religion trampled on and you could be next.
Unregenerate sinners carried out the government's slander campaign and kidnapping in a spirit of self righteousness while pointing to the laws they were violating to please their own perception of how believers ought to practice their faith in God.
What we need to see is the built in persecution in the growing police State in America and how it is not just directed toward the FLDS sect. It is directed at you! Your church could be next!
The American Church stood by and did nothing but God intervened
in the courts and the Mothers of the sect whose children have been
wickedly kidnapped from them by the State, now have hope of receiving
them to their bosoms where they belong. Meanwhile, the least you
could do is go into your prayer closet and knock on heaven's door
in their behalf.
The parents of the sect have not been convicted of wrongdoing, yet the State of Texas required them to sign away their freedoms of privacy and movement to get their children back from the State. In other words, the State of Texas like other States in America admits to doing no wrong.
A female judge required the sect to sign over their freedoms fearing they would leave the State. Yet they were not convicted of a crime. Texas has made its own unique contribution to the growing police state in America.
They were required to submit to fingerprinting and to be photographed as they pick up their children. They are also required to attend parenting classes. They must agree to remain in Texas and they must agree to unannounced visits from social workers. Now sinners in spiritual darkness will invade the group's free exercise of religion and tell them how they should live their lives. Is that what you want for your congregation? Then where were you while other practicioners of their faith in Christ were taken prisoner by an immoral government that does not allow prayer in the schools nor monuments of the ten commandments on public property?
Imagine that?
The sect is made guilty by a judge before they have had their proper day in court. Do you know we are supposed to be INNOCENT UNTIL WE ARE PROVED GUILTY?
Can we cure the nation? Of course not, but we do not have to be blind to
it. Where were the Christian leaders of America while this tragedy took
place? And where was the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? Don't
they know the religious freedom of African Americans is threatened
when the freedom of religious freedom of white folks is trampled under
by the government?
Now the government really bagged a wicked fellow when they put Warren Jeffs, the leader of the church
in jail for ten years for rape they didn't prove. Doesn't that get your attention?
The churches in America certainly do need to realize we are in the last days, and we have a responsibility to protect the freedom of religion. Do you remember how many wars were fought so we could have it? We have no right to permit religious brethren to be persecuted without a just cause.
He is estimated to have anywhere up to 70 wives and as many as 60 children. The Sect remained polygamist after the Mormon Church gave it up a long time ago. So its a strange way of life to all of us. But that doesn't make it immoral or criminal. If you know your Scriptures, you know "GRACE REIGNS BY FAITH."
Jeffs is considered a prophet by his ten thousand followers. So he appointed marriages between young people who were underage according to man's laws but according to the laws of faith, and THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION in the Constitution of the United States of America, the Sect has the right to do what they believe is Scriptural.
It was a practice a few hundred years ago in Europe for pre-arranged marriages. And all you have to do is take a closer look at the epidemic of divorce in America and you'll agree there is something seriously wrong with the way Americans outside of the Texas Sect are marrying.
I believe Warren Jeffs ought to be released from jail without any conditions whatsoever. But if you believe the Texas Sect ought to be prosecution, just keep in mind...
"WHERE THERE IS NO VISION, THE PEOPLE
PERISH."
