The all-powerful, all-wise state
“We’re going on three weeks since the Texas Rangers raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas on the pretext of child abuse, polygamy, physical violence and rape.
“So far, though, even though more than 400 children were seized from parents, precious little evidence of the crimes has been made public.
Now suppose this raid had not been on a compound of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but instead on your average public school.
“I read the news. I know the statistics. The chances are very good there would be more evidence of child sexual abuse in government schools than has been produced at the Yearning for Zion Ranch.”
“When a government schoolteacher is arrested for abusing one student, are all the students in that school assumed to be victims?
“And why aren’t all the usual, dependable advocates of tolerance, diversity and alternative lifestyles actively protesting the disruption of life within a peaceful community based on society’s imposition of its own sense of morality?”