Yet another religious cult raided

[kandrathe]

We've become rather more conservative as a culture.

I think it is more insidious than that. Some items to note; Who has the most "brain time" with your children, and is molding their intellectual and moral foundations? Movements are underway in many states (started in California) that will do away with home schooling. Meaning that unless you've become certified as an educator yourself, you are unqualified to teach even your own children. Raising the age of adulthood puts kids into the hands of the state longer. At the same time, even dangerous teachers within the public school system are protected from dismissal by their powerful unions. Conservatism has lost where I live, it is the progressives, liberals and leftists who are in control.