POLIGAMY AND YOUNG GIRLS

The arrest and charging of the Bountiful Sect’s leaders with polygamy is long overdue. Not in my mind because they take on the challenge of multiple wives and all that it entails but because they have decided that marrying young girls is the way to go. The accommodating of 20 women or 17 or whatever the number is would be a major challenge in itself, but if that’s what they want that’s fine. Winston Blackmore must get a real deal when he goes shopping for Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas and all other such occasions. Juggling the wants and desires of that many women would pose such a logistics problem I certainly can’t understand how or why he would even consider such an arrangement. The situational scenarios are mindboggling and I will not even try to address them at this time.

The introduction of young girls, too young to properly comprehend the situation they are getting themselves into into that mix  would and should constitute child abuse. Try as I might I cannot fathom a 13 or 14 year old girl having the maturity to decide that marrying  a 50 year old man is either desirable or morally right.

If Winston Blackmore gets off on the suggestion it is his religious right it opens the door to every pedophile in the country to claim that abusing young children is just one of their religious rights and freedoms. That is the main reason this situation has to be resolved with a conviction.