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Polygamist supporters protest at Rockets-Jazz game in Salt Lake City

02:05 AM CDT on Friday, April 25, 2008

Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — About 100 people rallied outside the Utah Jazz playoff game Thursday, chanting for Texas to release the children taken into state custody from a polygamist sect.

People protest in support of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints children outside the Houston Rockets-Utah Jazz NBA basketball playoff game Thursday in Salt Lake City. They are against Texas' seizure of the kids and placing them in foster homes.

Signs read “Free the Children” and “Got Constitution?” and people attending the rally chanted “Shame on Texas ... Free those kids!” as fans walked by on their way to the Jazz game against the Houston Rockets.

Some drivers honked and the protesters say the reactions were mostly positive, other than a few obscene gestures and jeers.

One woman held a sign that said “Prejudice Hurts Kids.” She said she was alarmed at the way Texas took the children from their parents.

The Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado was raided April 3.

I read this this morning and about died. I cannot believe that at a moment when the LDS are trying desperately to disassociate themselves from the FLDS, a group of them attack a national basketball game with a protest in support of FLDS behavior. My favorite statement is "Prejudice Hurts Kids." Oh that's rich! What the hell does raping young girls have anything to do with prejudice? It is deeply unfortunate that all the kids have been removed from their homes and have been placed in foster care. It is no doubt extremely hard on all involved. But let us not forget that this activity is ILLEGAL!!! Having sex with underage girls is illegal and wrong. It is also wrong to "marry" all these women, get them knocked up with a dozen kids, and then file for welfare so the state can pay to care for all the "unwed mothers" and "fatherless children." It is fraud and its immoral. Shame on Utah and Arizona for not stopping this crap when they had the chance, and they have had many.

I feel for the children and their loss and confusion. What these protesters need to do is get their big mouths and butts down to Texas and help out these kids. Sorry folks, but protesting at a basketball game for "religious freedom" is about as effective as protesting global warming at an Opera. Not only is it ineffective, but confirms to the rest of the world what everyone is already saying; the LDS are FLDS, and Utah is a hotbed of condoned polygamy. If this was suppose to be a protest for religious freedom, then I have to say they are deeply ill informed. Freedom to practice one's religion is a right, as long as it does not hurt another person, or take away the personal freedoms of another. These people lost their children because there is evidence that these children have been abused. The children have lost their personal freedoms, and their rights as human beings. The parents lost their children because they chose to engage in activities that led them to break the law.

GOT CONSTITUTION??