Quote Originally Posted by Ozme52 View Post
That may well be 'propaganda' and even if not, may well be just a teenage pregnancy. Or it could be an adult male in power forcing his will on the innocent, but we may well never know.
I tend to agree -- There's a chance that the whole "child bride" thing was simply a teenage pregnancy (which occurs with startling frequency in all societies) being exploited for an excuse to send in the feds.

If we want to be left alone to practice our own lifestyle, we should stand up for others doing the same, so long as no children are harmed. (And because a 14-yr-old got pregnant is not proof that it was part of their lifestyle! 14-year-olds in YOUR community sometimes get pregnant too.)

If the polygamists call the bondage people perverts, and presume the worst of them, and we do the same for them, then we can all expect and deserve to be roundly persecuted by everyone else.

When they come to bust up the bdsm people, they'll of course find some underaged or ridiculously extreme example to hold up to the cameras, to remove all sympathy for the community. Standard practise.