Polygamists Vary
Public Forum Letter
Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 04/30/2008 06:37:03 PM MDT
Polygamists Vary
I was raised in a polygamous home. My dad had two wives, and each wife had her own house and kids. As kids we wore blue jeans, listened to rock 'n' roll music and watched TV. We went to public school and many attended college. We fell in love and married whoever we wanted, at or above the legal age.
We now work and live all over the country. I am no longer in a polygamous group, and neither are most of my brothers and sisters. But as you can see, all polygamous groups are not the same.
I am appalled at the unconstitutional actions in the raid on the polygamous community in Texas. Since when do children get taken away from a family without specific allegations made against that specific family? That's like you losing your kids because a neighbor beat up his son.
What surprises me is how uninformed so many are and how easily people believe a biased media and stereotype all polygamous groups without looking at the facts. I am also shocked to hear of so many Mormons who claim to be Christians and yet support persecuting people who are doing many of the same things their ancestors did.
The persecuted have become the persecutors.
Janet Averett
Mt. Pleasant
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1 comments:
It's called reaction formation, people
become what they hate.
Everywhere the abused become the abusers.
One argument for polygamy has always been
that it is/was/is best for the children.
Going back to the indigenous world and
to rural Utah, polygamy was a way for
sisters and childhood friends to remain
together and rear children together as they
would have done in their old country villages.
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