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Texas Polygamist Case Update: FDLS in the News

Submitted by JulieC on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 00:22

Finally we have an update on the Texas Polygamist case that may have slipped the minds of many by now since it began all the way back in April. As a quick refresher, the government went into a FLDS sect with high suspicion but little evidence, and took 460 children that they had a hunch were being abused.

Turns out whether or not the children were being abused doesn’t really come into play if you don’t have sufficient evidence, which as we just went over, the police did not, so they began slowly making plans and agreements with the parents to allow some of the children to go back home.

Texas Polygamist Case Continues

Submitted by JulieC on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 23:42

 

It seems so long ago now that the news was flooded with articles about the religious compound that was raided by authorities in Texas, and the large amount of children who were removed due to suspected involvement in forced arranged underage spiritual marriages.

 The world screamed out with cries of injustice on both sides of the fence, their were those who wept for the young girls who were forced into marriages and marital duties with their new husbands, and those who wept over the government tromping on the religious freedoms of those who sought comfort and protection in the polygamist sect; The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, run by Warren Jeffs.

Adoption News: Gay Adoptive Fathers Win Ruling in Israel; Texas Disrupts Foster Families

Submitted by VirginiaC on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 22:03

 

NewspaperA landmark adoption decision in Israel. The Family Court of Tel-Aviv has ruled that both partners in a gay couple can declare themselves legal father of their adopted son. The decision comes on the heels of a recommendation, in February, by Israel's attorney general that homosexual couples be allowed to adopt, as well as a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court, in December, that the country's Interior Ministry must register the partners of lesbian biological mothers as adoptive mothers as well. An attorney for the two fathers in the most recent case, identified on an Israeli news Web site as Giora Shavit and Avi Shadiv, expressed hope that the decision would encourage more gay and lesbian couples to adopt.