Eldorado Outrage

State officials announced yesterday that over 30 of the 50-some 14-to-17 year-old girls from the FLDS compound are pregnant. One is thirteen.

I wonder if this will shut-up any of the folks professing outrage at the state’s treatment of these simple God-fearing people. The same folks that blame Clinton and Reno because Vernon Howell lead his flock to a fiery death, or blame the FBI because that nut Randy Weaver got his wife shot at Ruby Ridge.

Reading “Grits for Breakfast” last week I learned that the Salt Lake Tribune has a reporter, Brooke Adams, that covers the polygamist beat. Could be that the subject of religious nuts is too much for any one reporter. Today’s paper had a story of a couple in Wisconsin charged in the death of their daughter from a treatable illness that they deemed “spiritual,” and news that the Florida House had passed a mandate that the states schools challenge evolution.

I get so P-O’d when I hear people say how religious the founding fathers were. Madison records that a motion to hire a preacher to pray for the constitutional convention failed because the founders were unwilling to pay for a preacher. They voted to save themselves a fight there, and we ought to respect that precedent if we know what's good for us.