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Entry: Waiting for Agitprop Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/waiting_for_agitprop#24449 Post contents: "The American Protestant establishment opposed them for spurning the New Testament’s commandment about marriage and for reviving what was then considered an archaic Old Testament institution." Then history is truly repeating itself. I grew up (part of the time) near San Angelo and El Dorado. The Southern Baptists and Church of Christers dominate everything. The Sheriff of Schleicher County has pretty much admitted in press accounts that plans for a raid on the ranch had been set up long before now, so I have no doubt that the impetus for this raid came from quarters other than CPS. I went back into the archives of the El Dorado Success and found accounts of when the FLDS first moved there. The El Doradans had meetings wherein it was expressed that the Sheriff shouldn't allow them to be "living in sin" like they were. They were also afraid that the FLDS would register to vote and bloc vote. Then, their St. Rep got the law changed from 14 to 16 as the age to which parents can consent to marriage. He was at the courthouse last week bragging about that and possibly giving the attorneys ammo for a bill of attainder argument should any of those folks be prosecuted. The El Dorado Success kept up a steady diet of sensationalist stories about the travails of the FLDS in Arizona and Utah and the convictions therof. The community of El Dorado, I'm sure, spent many excitement-filled hour gossiping about their strange neighbors. The barber and beauty shops probably featured such talk as the main entertainment on Saturday mornings. The FLDS folks never had a chance against the Southern Baptists of West Texas. Had they asked me, I would've told them to move to the Big Bend near Study Butte or Terlingua, where people mind their own darn business. Sent at: 2008 12 02