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Salt Lake Tribune

A new clothing brand may be born out of the Texas raid on a polygamous sect. Launched initially to provide Texas authorities with clothing for FLDS children in custody, the online store now is aimed at helping their mothers earn a living.

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In the final hours of one of the longest state legislative sessions on record, state senators approved a measure sending a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to the fall ballot. (All about getting the 'right' voters to the polls

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Pro Libertate

Despite a consistent string of legal defeats and a resounding loss in the court of public opinion, the State of Texas and its child-abduction auxiliary are continuing their jihad against the families of Eldorado's FLDS community.

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Yahoo News

SAN ANGELO, Texas - In a ruling that could torpedo the case against the West Texas polygamist sect, a state appeals court Thursday said authorities had no right to seize more than 440 children in a raid on the splinter group's compound last month

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by William Grigg

Arrow Child and Family Ministries, a foster care and adoption agency with headquarters near Houston, "found out today that they will be receiving 80-100 permanent placement children," exulted the sister of an assistant to Mark A. Tennant, f

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AP

In the past week, the state has twice been forced to admit "girls" who gave birth while in state custody are actually adults. One was 22 and claims she showed state officials a Utah birth certificate shortly after she was seized from the we

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Christian Science Monitor

"I am a cheerleader for what Texas is doing," Senator Reid said. "Texas is doing what Utah and Arizona should have done decades ago…." He added he has asked the US Justice Department to create a task force to investigate the FLDS.

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Reuters

For the tests to be useful, the adults would also have to give DNA samples. However they can legally refuse to do so which could complicate matters further and delay [them ever seeing their kids again] legal decisions about the fate of the children.

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By Stephanie Coontz - International Herald Tribune

Why do people - gay or straight - need the state's permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn't, because marriage was a private contract between two families. The parents' agreement to the match, not the approval of churc

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Mondoreb & Ginn

The fair is such a joyous place: cotton candy, the Ferris Wheel, and--divorces? Austrians love their divorces more than they love 'love', it appears. More on the latest blow to Cupid, the Divorce Fair,

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