The Worst Part About Living on a Polygamist Ranch
Interesting story today by Robert T. Garrett about the Eldorado kids (great name for a band). This paragraph, in particular, caught my eye:
Until this month, the youths inhabited a cloistered world where they couldn’t swear, curse, date, dance, watch TV, go to malls or movies, play Nintendo, or surf the Web.
Two points: 1) That sounds like an itinerary for my perfect Saturday. 2) When I asked Zac what the difference was between swearing and cursing, without missing a beat, he said, “Maybe they are witches.”
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Add the quote about eating home-grown fresh foods and you have something that sounds somewhat idealistic to the far left (for the communitarian, agrarian social model) and the far right (for the spurning of corrupt modern cultural influences). Something for Wendell Berry *and* Ralph Reed. (Except for the polygamy, naturally.)
Perfect Saturday if - that is - you weren’t under the impression that if you did any of those things, you’d anger up God and get your wife taken away and reassigned to someone else. Might just make it a little less relaxing. Not sure if I speak for any other FB readers, but I’m tired of the prattling on about religion and gender without doing much if any research. It’s not even a Dallas topic.
Swearing: In X’s name, Xdamnit
Cursing: Go to X you X
It will be good for these kids to get out and be able to watch a pregnant Jamie Lynn Spears on the Disney network. Paris Hilton can show them the proper way to exit a car. Once given a good dose of reality television and some Grand Theft Auto, they will be the Americans we want them to be.
I forget, now how many children have died while in the custody of CPS?
They must be made to know, in the gentlest way possible, that bopping is not a crime.
Well, Tim, there is also the gender dynamics that come with polygamous life. Only a few favored elders will be entitled to wives, which means that there will be a surplus of young men of marriageable age with no prospects. Other LDS polygamy spinoffs have solved this problem by simply expelling adolescent boys when they reach puberty. I don’t know what they were doing out in West Texas. Perhaps they hadn’t been in place long enough for young men to threaten the monopoly of the elders. It’s a pleasant life style, I guess, if you’re old and horny. Otherwise, not so much.