But you know, that isn't what is bothering me. Are my eyes just too blurry, or am I seeing the two buses that took people out of that fundy Mormon compound covered with "FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH" on the front of them? (there is a pic at the story link).
Ok...maybe I'm being picky here, but if an extremist religious group is already pissed off, why would you use buses from ANOTHER religious group which openly condemns the religious group being busted?
I know...I know...maybe they didn't have any other buses available, but I'm sorry. . .no public school buses? No county buses of any kind? It says right here in the same ABC News story:
If no agreement is reached with sect leaders, authorities will forcibly remove the sect's followers "as peaceably as possible," Allison Palmer, a prosecutor in Tom Green County, told the San Angelo Standard-Times.
Medical workers are being sent "in case this were to a go in a way that no one wants," Palmer said. Law enforcers are "preparing for the worst," she said.
"Within the religion that we have encountered, their place of worship is very special to them," Palmer said. "It appears to be of great concern to them if a person from outside their congregation even attempts to step inside their place of worship."
A search warrant authorized troopers to enter the retreat, run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They are looking for evidence of a marriage between the girl and a 50-year-old man.http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4595141Now don't get me wrong here...if their activity is criminal, it's criminal, but I also know parts of Texas are nearly married to the Baptist churches - and it just strikes me as very wrong that they'd use buses from a denomination which spews open disgust at Mormons to transport people out of that isolated compound.