I think this "upset" the Texas sect is experiencing has less to do with their polygamy and more to do with the fact that 13 and 14-year old girls (and the numbers were way more than just one) were being abused and used as baby-making machines. If this had been a group of consentual adults doing their thing, and not involving the children in their "doings", they would have been left alone to their polygamist ways. They've been going about it in Utah for decades and decades now without much trouble being brought their way. Of course, it helps when your group "owns" the law-making positions, as well as the police force. But that's another issue.

But then a few radicals went off (literally) and felt the need to involve minors in the business of multiple sex partners. And that will, rightly so, piss all sorts of people off, enough that an entire "community" was ripped apart at its foundations. And of course, again, it's the children that suffer. On top of what they already suffer.

I think the children are safe as long as there are no disillusioned "I am your god and you must obey me by sacrificing your child" kind of men around. But if any of those women who seek to be with men of that ilk find such a man, then the girl-children will be at risk once again.

I'm all for freedom of self-expression when it comes to sexuality, but not when it involves a child. And until a person is of a certain age, all grown up and capable of deciding for themselves, without threat and/or coercion (that can come later), about what is and isn't true for him/herself, back off and let them be.