"In Texas, officials have maintained that they removed all of the children because of a lifestyle there that promotes abuse and neglect."

So, it's out. The children were removed not because of any REAL abuse but because they live in a lifestyle that may promote abuse and neglect.
That could fit anyone at anytime.
If the powers that run your particular state decide they don't like your "lifestyle" then you are fair game. They can raid you whenever it's convenient.
This is getting scary. We probably all fit the profile at sometime.

They think there is evidence of abuse and neglect???What about all the moms out there who REALLY neglect their child by placing him or her in daycare all day. Or by never teaching the child about God. And let their only role models be the sick pop/rap stars of this generation. THIS IS NEGLECT TO ME!!Just because these people do not abort their children ,they have more than most , BUT that doesn't mean they neglect them!!!

How is prostituting your teenage daughter off to some dirty old man NOT abuse? What's worse is that this is done to gain eternal exaltation. I am horrified by the number of comments on these stories that defend this behavior. This has nothing to do with religious freedom. Genital mutilation of young girls is justified within the religious beliefs of many Muslims to maintain the sexual purity of the girls, but there is likewise no way I could condone this behavior.

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What people are upset about is the removal of all 416 kids when the state's evidence suggests that only the teenage girls are at risk of abuse.

Just who is this judge? Local County? State of Texas? A Federal Judge??

And WHOM gave hired bureaucrats the right to determine Right and Wrong, to apply THEIR secular standards to "Acceptable" religious practices?

This month it was the break-away FLDS, who is next? The Catholics? The Lutherans? The Evangelicals? The Latter-Day Saints?

This has gone too far.

I personally do not endorse the practice of plural marriage in this day and age. But to waste the State of Texas' resources on a "possible faked phone call." To destroy the lives of more than 400 children is almost impossible to imagine in what I was taught to be The United States of America.

We are well advised to heard the words of Pastor Martin Niemöller.