I appreciate you asking if this can be true?

No, not at the site in TX. Local townspeople were upset about FLDS moving to their area, but it seems that they were tolerated as they stayed
to themselves, FLDS reps bought supplies in towns far away to avoid nearby social connections. They have their own law within the compound, but it is not sanctioned by the USA or Texas.

BTW, this group moved to TX when their leader, Warren Jeffs, was being investigated in Utah for underage rapes & quasi marriages for these children. They hightailed it out of Utah and moved to an obscure area of Texas with a low population density of independent souls who live best by living their own lives. This FLDS gro...

I appreciate you asking if this can be true?

No, not at the site in TX. Local townspeople were upset about FLDS moving to their area, but it seems that they were tolerated as they stayed
to themselves, FLDS reps bought supplies in towns far away to avoid nearby social connections. They have their own law within the compound, but it is not sanctioned by the USA or Texas.

BTW, this group moved to TX when their leader, Warren Jeffs, was being investigated in Utah for underage rapes & quasi marriages for these children. They hightailed it out of Utah and moved to an obscure area of Texas with a low population density of independent souls who live best by living their own lives. This FLDS group took advantage of the natural affinity of these people to "live and let live".

The news that these FLDS polygamists had moved to Texas was disturbing, and I have followed this story in several venues. Their TX compound was quite spacious, yet spartan. Everything was new and well built.

These people dress in a way that resembles the Amish, Seventh Day Adventists or Mennonites, so I think it gives them a "PASS" in the public eye because we admire the other groups so much.

THE OTHER GROUPS DON'T PROMOTE POLYGAMY.

Intermarriages with close relatives are common, as they rarely bring other people in from the outside.

This polygamist sect claims to be the real Mormons, and that the other Mormons sold out to the government to become a state, so THEY DO NOT LIVE UNDER THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. Just as illegal immigrants manage to live IN AMERICA, these polygamists live IN AMERICA.

I know you don't see it through our government, but, as a people, we are fairly tolerant of various groups who choose to live outside the mainstream of American society. The Amish had lived outside the changes in American culture for many centuries, & they live peacefully among us, throughout the United States of America. There are other groups to numerous to mention, unless I wanted to write a book.

I don't think homeschooling in the US is the first step to polygamy. Cults such as the one operating in Castleconnell, Ireland, The Children of God, (in which orgies and sex between adults and children occurred)

Extraordinary. Never even heard of this. Could not have forgotten it - if true. So I Googled it. Three hits but what hits. Two from the same source of very dubious pedigree.

Castleconnell, Ireland, area was base for child sex cult, claims victim

The shocking story of a religious cult which, it is claimed, set up base in the Castleconnell area in the 1990s, is detailed in a new book published by Harper Collins.

Irish village in cult claim
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I don't think homeschooling in the US is the first step to polygamy. Cults such as the one operating in Castleconnell, Ireland, The Children of God, (in which orgies and sex between adults and children occurred)

Extraordinary. Never even heard of this. Could not have forgotten it - if true. So I Googled it. Three hits but what hits. Two from the same source of very dubious pedigree.

Castleconnell, Ireland, area was base for child sex cult, claims victim

The shocking story of a religious cult which, it is claimed, set up base in the Castleconnell area in the 1990s, is detailed in a new book published by Harper Collins.

Irish village in cult claim

Leading figures in Castleconnell were puzzled this week at claims that a religious cult, which allegedly organised sex between children and adults, operated from the area for a period in the mid 1990s.

In a shocking new book [Amazon UK]
published by the reputable firm of Harper Collins, 26-year-old Julianna
Buhring, and her sisters Kristina and Celeste, tell readers that the Children of God
cult, of which their family were members, had one of its communes in a
big country house, away from public view, in the suburbs of Limerick.

both from the ReligionNewsBlog or whatever
both claiming local source as The Limerick Post, a free handout piece of junk with no reputable journalist, if any.

My best guess is this is totally false yarn to sell a new sensational new book. Should I research further?

I don't think homeschooling in the US is the first step to polygamy. Cults such as the one operating in Castleconnell, Ireland, The Children of God, (in which orgies and sex between adults and children occurred)

Extraordinary. Never even heard of this. Could not have forgotten it - if true. So I Googled it. Three hits but what hits. Two from the same source of very dubious pedigree.

Castleconnell, Ireland, area was base for child sex cult, claims victim

The shocking story of a religious cult which, it is claimed, set up base in the Castleconnell area in the 1990s, is detailed in a new book published ...

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I don't think homeschooling in the US is the first step to polygamy. Cults such as the one operating in Castleconnell, Ireland, The Children of God, (in which orgies and sex between adults and children occurred)

Extraordinary. Never even heard of this. Could not have forgotten it - if true. So I Googled it. Three hits but what hits. Two from the same source of very dubious pedigree.

Castleconnell, Ireland, area was base for child sex cult, claims victim

The shocking story of a religious cult which, it is claimed, set up base in the Castleconnell area in the 1990s, is detailed in a new book published by Harper Collins.

Irish village in cult claim

Leading figures in Castleconnell were puzzled this week at claims that a religious cult, which allegedly organised sex between children and adults, operated from the area for a period in the mid 1990s.

In a shocking new book [Amazon UK] published by the reputable firm of Harper Collins, 26-year-old Julianna Buhring, and her sisters Kristina and Celeste, tell readers that the Children of God cult, of which their family were members, had one of its communes in a big country house, away from public view, in the suburbs of Limerick.

both from the ReligionNewsBlog or whatever
both claiming local source as The Limerick Post, a free handout piece of junk with no reputable journalist, if any.

My best guess is this is totally false yarn to sell a new sensational new book. Should I research further?

I wasn't even going to sign in today ... but leave it to righthand to clip something I had to comment on!

I homeschooled my youngest daughter. We are not part of any cult. I made the decision to homeschool her when we moved back here to Florida.

Within the first few months after moving here there were several events here that made me fear for my daughter's safety in the public school system. There was a junior high student arrested for placing rat poison in the taco sauce at his school. Thirteen students became ill and had to be treated. There have been so many murders of students by other students nationwide ... all of which have been in the news. There was also a young girl here that w...

I wasn't even going to sign in today ... but leave it to righthand to clip something I had to comment on!

I homeschooled my youngest daughter. We are not part of any cult. I made the decision to homeschool her when we moved back here to Florida.

Within the first few months after moving here there were several events here that made me fear for my daughter's safety in the public school system. There was a junior high student arrested for placing rat poison in the taco sauce at his school. Thirteen students became ill and had to be treated. There have been so many murders of students by other students nationwide ... all of which have been in the news. There was also a young girl here that was raped beside the gym at her school.

Life will have all too many horrors waiting for my child to allow her to be threatened in the public schools, and subjected to the peer preasure and bullying that goes on at school. She had 6 years of public school in several great schools in Georgia, so I kept her home for the remainder of her school years after we moved to Florida and I began hearing more and more bad reports coming out of the local schools.

I believe home schooling (like any other closed or private thing) can be abused and misused. Home schooling is the perfect platform to poison or twist young minds, if this is your intension. You are the only teacher ... the only example ... the only major input in their lives. I believe parents should be this (teacher, example, major input), but only in the right way ... which leaves home schooling open for abuse.

I personally would have loved to have been home schooled. Thanks for this clip and comments.

I wasn't even going to sign in today ... but leave it to righthand to clip something I had to comment on!

Now are you not glad you signed in. you've had the opportunity to put the good side of home-schooling and I hope the majority.

I hadn't know there was any bad side to home-schooling. All new to me. Home-schooling is virtually unknown in Ireland. It came as a bit of a shock to learn that there was any cult connections. I did put a question mark in the title.

I'm certainly better informed as I hope others are too. Different child abuse events recently have left me punch drunk and prepared to view anything as plausible. Events in Austria and Israel recently leave my slee...

I wasn't even going to sign in today ... but leave it to righthand to clip something I had to comment on!

Now are you not glad you signed in. you've had the opportunity to put the good side of home-schooling and I hope the majority.

I hadn't know there was any bad side to home-schooling. All new to me. Home-schooling is virtually unknown in Ireland. It came as a bit of a shock to learn that there was any cult connections. I did put a question mark in the title.

I'm certainly better informed as I hope others are too. Different child abuse events recently have left me punch drunk and prepared to view anything as plausible. Events in Austria and Israel recently leave my sleep disturbed. I certainly didn't intend offence to genuine good home-schoolers.

One last comment on polygny. In most polygnous societies, the first wife ranks above the rest while each subsequent wife serves as another of her assistants. In which case, if a man can afford a second wife, his first wife will generally petition him to get another.... and another.... Many anthropologists think this is how the custom got started as women in these societies have large work loads.

It is common for wives to bicker among themselves. Also, they can collectively put considerable pressure on their common husband. Where the custom wanes it is usually the men who are the more content to see it go. Less hassles.

In most polygnous societies, their ways have evolved over centuries ...

One last comment on polygny. In most polygnous societies, the first wife ranks above the rest while each subsequent wife serves as another of her assistants. In which case, if a man can afford a second wife, his first wife will generally petition him to get another.... and another.... Many anthropologists think this is how the custom got started as women in these societies have large work loads.

It is common for wives to bicker among themselves. Also, they can collectively put considerable pressure on their common husband. Where the custom wanes it is usually the men who are the more content to see it go. Less hassles.

In most polygnous societies, their ways have evolved over centuries This is not the case within cults where the institution is quite contrived.