Off to school they go?
Part of the caption over at Yahoo! News Photos:
| Law enforcement officials escort members of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints onto a school bus in Eldorado, Texas, Sunday, April 6, 2008. Authorities took 220 women and children from the compound. |
It’s interesting to me to see that school bus there.
At least it wasn’t Waco. (Who will make the Clinton-Bush comparison on that one?)
(Latter, by the way.)
Though I disagree with Mormons (original or revised or fundamentalist versions) on plenty of issues, I am blessed to see the beautifully-dressed, modestly-dressed, femininely-dressed appearance of those girls and women. Frankly, they remind me of the “conservative” branches of “my people” — Anabaptists.
In fact, those dresses look like the kind of wife and daughter sew.
Saw this yesterday and I too was struck by their dresses. I may not agree with the Mormon doctrine, but I know that these women’s and children’s lives are now in upheavel. We can pray that they find the truth through all this and see it was for the best.