You must be reading it upside down or something. That poster isn’t blaming them for the Jeff’s compound. He is mereley stating the fact that polygamy is in the LDS history. It is in LDS history right?
Whether he received warnings or not, prior to his banning, we wil never know. But again, I’ve never seen a moderator her go off on someone telling them they’re banned.
Just another way of censoring the truth, and trying to look superior doing it. Maybe you should post a thread over there similar to this one, asking for it to be shut down.
Just a thought.
From the mormon apologetic discussions board by the poster that was banned:
Yes, but surely you must feel at least some degree of responsibility
for what it happening to these children? Where do you think this group
of people got the idea to impose the practice of polygamy on children
in the first place?** Systemic polygamy is in your pedigree, and you can
never scrape that off. The founders of the religious movement of which
your sect is also a part established the practice among yourselves.
The religious figures that you now honor and revere dug the pit in the
first place, and while your group has since built a fence between
yourselves and that pit, others continue to fall into it. The question
onlookers are now inclined to ask is, ``What are you now doing to fill
that pit?’’**
Many Mormons take the attitude of, ``Systemic polygamy is wrong!
Unless, of course, it is our own sect that decides to practice
it. Then it is okay. But only as long as we say so (or, equivalently,
the god we made up says so).’’ To the degree that your members take
that attitude, the Warren Jeffs sect and the Utah sect of the Latter
Day Saint movement appear to be just two sides of the same
coin. People need to see the Utah sect be more vocal about the
inherent evils of indoctrinating children into polygamy, especially in
the context of isolated communities where people get little or no
opportunity to fully understand and freely choose among the
alternative lifestyles, such as heterosexual monogamy, homosexual
monogamy, or polyandry.
I should make clear that the practice of polygamy in and of itself is
not a bad thing, and consenting and informed adults who practice
polygamy of their own informed volition are doing absolutely nothing
that deserves condemnation. It is the systemic imposition of
polygamous relationships onto children, in the sense of indoctrinating
them and forcefully coercing them to enter into the practice
themselves, that is despicable. Anyone who has done this to children,
past, present, or future, must be censored for that practice, without
exception. (I might add that coercing a homosexual child to enter into
a heterosexual marriage is also wrong, for many of the same
reasons). Any institution that indoctrinates children into this
practice must also be condemned (let us start by denying them their
tax-exempt status). That is the primary reason why I support the
government’s intrusion into the activities of this sect of the Latter
Day Saint movement.
It seems like he is blaming the lds church for what is happening in Texas.
