The Associated Press reports details. Jeffs and four followers were indicted for felony sexual abuse of a child. One was indicted for failure to report child abuse. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports a 17-year-old former YFZ resident, who has a one-year-old daughter, is living with 14 siblings and her mother in a rented house in San Antonio. The Times, perpetually eager to spitshine bullfeathers, headlines their article “The Young Women of the FLDS.” The girl is 17 now, and her child is a year old. That would be a “spiritual sealing” at the age of 15, maybe younger.
Texas attorney general Greg Abbott says at least one of the FLDS men charged — not Jeffs — faces an additional charge of bigamy as a result of the Schleicher County raid on Yearning For Zion ranch.
Bringiton tells me the trustee for the FLDS’ communal property in Utah/Arizona (Short Creek) has NOT been successfully sued to stop evictions of church families from homes where they have not made payments, despite the FLDS’ efforts to subvert the trustee’s work and the church’s refusal (surprise, surprise, surprise!!) to cooperate with the court-ordered oversight of the real estate operations.
Schleicher County Grand Jury Indicts Jeffs, 5 Other FLDS Men
Submitted by Sarah on Wed, 2008-07-23 00:47.
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what is wrong with the NYT
it is really sick
The NYT Reflects the Culture
which continues to have a decent-sized segment that sees nothing wrong with grown men having sex with adolescent girls. There were several posts over the weekend at Echidne about this mentality - here,here, and here.
I tend to agree with Melissa McEwan that we’re moving towards a normalization of at least some kinds of rape. As Sarah documented, the word has most infamously been banned from some courtrooms in rape trials. And it’s often not used in news articles about acts which are rape.
We’re looking at some very scary times for women in this culture.
What do you mean, "the" culture?
Always watch out for the definite article. It’s so often a “tell.” Like “the” economy, when the real question is whose economy….
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
I Mean Our Culture
the culture of this country, which has always been patriarchical and has always in one form or another sought to control women. Sometimes more fiercely than others, but that’s been the underlying dynamic since this country’s founding. It’s a culture Americans grow up in. Just as we all grow up in a racist culture. That doesn’t mean everyone agrees with it or there aren’t people working to change it, but we’re all living in it. And it’s that culture that the NYT and other mainstream media outlets operate in and, to some extent, necessarily reflect.
When you’re talking about something built into the structure of the nation - and patriarchy and racism have been since before the nation’s founding - then I think the article “the” is appropriate. Otherwise it suggests that there’s some part of our culture that’s unaffected by these original sins and, personally, I don’t believe that.