You don’t deserve my sympathy!

Posted by Blogr Mom on April 19th, 2008 filed in Family

I’ve been loosely following the saga going on in Texas with the children that were removed from the religious compound of a Mormon sect. I watched the women on Larry King on CNN trying  to generate sympathy so that their children would  be returned to them.

After watching the interview I was somewhat cynical. The women had obviously agreed on what to say and what issues they should skirt around because they kept coming back to how the children were torn cruelly from them.  None of them were married when they were underage, to their knowledge the men did not have sex with minors, and none of them was ready to mention their husbands not to talk of their whereabouts. The pregnant silence that followed some of the questions they were asked and their obvious scrambling for answers that would not be incriminating would have been hilarious in any other circumstances.

Sorry, but I could not find any sympathy for these women. How can you say you don’t know that polygamy is illegal in the US and then claim you’re being persecuted using laws that were enacted just 3 months ago? How did you know about laws that were passed 3 months ago when you don’t know about laws that have been in place for ages? Their lawyers have obviously been working  overtime. Whatever is found to be best for those children should be the priority, not the feelings of a group of people who don’t have the decency to be honest with others.