Thanks for the feedback. There is much more to say about the denial of due process (case by case hearings on emergency relief enjoining removal) before children were sent off to foster care much less separated. No social studies were even done. And when the group relocation order, supposedly temporary, was entered by Walther, many lawyers hadn't even located their clients. Amazing.

The double standards are enough to cause whiplash if you look at them without cultural bias. Judges in Texas can approve minors' marriages to older people on application either with parental permission or on application if deemed in the minor's best interests. Why isn't that an "abusive belief system," codified at law? That's what CPS calls the FLDS group.

Issues of physical coercion and abuse need to be dealt with, but precisely. Otherwise, the shotgun approach threatens the use of evidence in the real cases.