Yet another religious cult raided

[eppie]

Ok, back to the high road... I'm ignoring the last 15 or so posts. We can discuss cultural and national arrogance, Cuba issues, and Columbia another time.

Ok one last short answer.
Of course I can see this point, although reactions were a lot different some year ago when in Holland an organization of pedophiles wanted to start a political party with as points that they wanted the legal age to have sex with an adult brought down to 16. Even though in ancient Rome and Greece it was very normal to have sexual relations with small boys.

Although I was not against these people to start their party (it is democracy and a pedophile that is in parliament will not likely engage in an illegal 'relationship' with an underaged person), but I was against this lowering of the age these people wanted. Because in our society today under16s are often not mentally mature enough leading almost sure to an unequal relationship).

The same with this religious group. The point is that (in my opinion) these marriage and sex with underage girls is not based on equality and respect but on power and oppression. And that is the point. It is in the basis of this cult that these things happen.
Abuse of under aged girls or relations with mutual consent happen also with whites, blacks and Hispanics and everywhere in the world but it is not an organized phenomenon in these cases. And that is exactly why I think the government did the right thing here in the case of this sect. Even though it might for sure be possible that some of these girls were perfectly happy.