“I care not for a man’s religion…”

Abraham Lincoln once said: “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” I wonder what he would have said about religious fundamentalists who are suspected of abusing young girls and marrying them to older relatives. Probably not something nice.

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Update, Sunday morning: The situation is not getting any better. Standoff continues at Texas polygamist compound…

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Rebecca agrees: Polygamy and forced marriage are fundamentally incompatible with the ideals of a civilized society. It’s a good thing that the only group guilty of this in North America and Europe is a fringe offshoot of the Church of Latter Saints. We’d never tolerate this in our midst, surely.

Right?
Or maybe we would.

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