An update we're glad to hear

The Texas Supreme Court has handed down its decision:

"In a crushing blow to the state's massive seizure of children from a polygamist sect's ranch, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that child welfare officials overstepped their authority and the children should go back to their parents. The high court affirmed a decision by an appellate court last week, saying Child Protective Services failed to show an immediate danger to the more than 400 children swept up from the Yearning For Zion Ranch nearly two months ago."

And if the state can't show that, it needs to keep its hands off.

Good news on the FLDS front

The state of Texas to reunite 12 children with sect parents.
Conservatives should want the state to be very careful, and to have lots of evidence, before it barges in and takes children away from parents.

That costly mess of a Texas polygamy case

The more I hear about this case involving over 400 children taken from this FLDS sect in Texas, the less I like it. If in fact there has been child abuse, of course, action to stop it must go forward.

But: it sounds like the original call, alleging abuse, was a hoax.
There have been females who belong to the sect, who were pregnant and recently had children, who were claimed to be under-age...and then it turned out they weren't.
Many of these children have been taken away from their parents and put in foster care, even though there were no allegations against their mothers and fathers.
And now it looks like the whole case is going to cost the state of Texas over $30 million, by the time it's all done.

What a mess. And yet some liberal acquaintances support this state action, mainly because they intensely dislike the beliefs of the FLDS sect. Fundamental: beware of giving the state this kind of power.