Yet another religious cult raided

[Bun-Bun]

I do indeed. Remember the deprogrammers and cults in the 70's and 80's? Try this on for size: I've dealt with some pretty extreme branches of Pentacostals in the Navy, in my past, and am very familiar with the narrow world view excercised within those circles.

I'm not totally edumacated on the Pentacostals, but my surface knowledge indicates they are a pretty high-control bunch. I will say that rigor in religion is often a characteristic of high-control groups but it is not a defining one. There are plenty that are not religiously based.

I guess what I'm trying to get at was the unstated assumption in your prior post that the return of the adult women to the compound was some illustration that the situation there was not as bad as all that. My position is that the emotional control the FLDS has over these women is so strong that this is not a valid metric.

It'll be interesting to see what both sides come up with in today's hearing.