In English my class is currently reading Night by Elie Wiezel. It's about the Holocaust, and an extremely amazing book. While discussing, we had a lot of quesions to help us connect to the text, questions that put us in our time into the situation that was happening. At the time no one could really see something like that happening in our day and age. It's just too incomprehensible, it's impossible. I don't think that way anymore, now that in Eldarado Texas something similar has happened.
Just a few days ago property of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a polygamist sect (more than one wife/ mormon) was raided by Law officials after being tipped by a 16 year old girl who claimed to be sexually and physically abused by a 50 year old man she was forced to marry. There were over 400 hundred girls taken off the premesis wearing hand sewn prarie dresses. Many were pregnant and most underage -the youngest was 6 months.
It hurts my stomach to try and comprehend this large scale evil that's so close to home. What oppression! How berft these young girls must be! It's horrible, it's incomprehensible, it's impossible. But, it happened.
To think there are also similar situations in Arizona and Utah. Sex offenders, Rapists, underage, illegal, immoral marriges. For everyone that thinks this world we live in today has too much technology and service programs, and regulations for large scale abuse and oppression, you're wrong! I am wrong.
The worst part of this is that there have appearantly been an internal informant within the sect for four years. "How could this happen?" the first amendment. Government cannot interfere with such a sect religion assembly without enough credible evidence, or something! We talked about that in class, if the government should be able to step in and interfere with such a harmful program or if they should uphold the rights provided by the first ammendment. I was, against my will, on the amendment side. At the time I had made a substansial argument with help from some of my friends who were as equally outspoken as me on the subject. We even put up ideas that challenged the teacher, which she equally put up her arguments that did the same to us (if not worse).
But now, things change. My perception has changed. If I could, I would die without hesitation for those children (who some are probably older than me, yet I still refer to them as children). I am ashamed that I live in a world such as this, and that I contribute to its evil. pray for these girls, and the hearts of man, and pray for me.
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