Divorce Support Forums: Due process is alive and well int Texas

JBar, if you're not aware of tax dollars spent in the polygamist groups then you've missed about half the point of the government's prosecution of their situations. The first half is the abuse of the young women, the other half is the institutionalized format for collecting welfare.

They have whole instruction setups on how to manipulate the system.

You didn't think that these men were magically rich and able to support all these wives & kids on their own, did you?

Here's the setup. They legally marry one woman. They have what is considered an affair with the others. According to the state, they can't marry more than one EVEN commonlaw because the state does not permit polygamy... the prohibition of polygamy trumps the statute allowing commonlaw marriage.

In thier faith they're married, and that's really all they care about. They could care less about whether the state recognizes their marriages, so they could care less about whether the common law allows this. It's NOT about commonlaw marriages for them... they do a religious service without the marriage license from teh state and it makes them right by thier god, and wives number 2-10+ are simply thought of as "single mothers" by the state.

The single mothers all apply for aid to families with dependent children.

Thier large houses are setup as if they're rental units, large dormatories where the men visit the wives, and therefore no one woman is really "married"... all but the first one (assuming that one was married according to the laws with a marriage license)... and so they apply for all the housing, food assistance, healthcare, child care (doing daycare for each other)... all the assistance possible from the state for free, so the husbands have to provide much less in support of their families.

And the church builds their dormatories with the tax exempt donations... provides nearly everythign for their communal lifestyle that way. In this way, they live nearly tax free by giving away the maximum possible earnings to the church, which turns around and uses the donations to provide a tax free room/board/clothing... and they have huge amounts of state assistance coming into the community through free healthcare, WIC, AFDC and every other program imaginable for single mothers.

This is not a group of people I'd be advocating for if I were you, JBar. Your exremist federalist position on many things is very contrary to the true position that the polygamists take on anything. They want no government intererence with them whatsoever, while expecting 100$ government participation in funding their lifestyles.

I'm surprised you've never heard of this. You must not be quite as well-read as you always claim... or are the blogs you get all your opinions from so incredibly one-sided that they never even mention the "rest of the story"... ?

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