Christopher Ratte

Should people be free to set up cults, to live undisturbed to practice their religion, to deviate from mainstream ethical codes? Certainly if we believe in freedom, people should be able to do this. In fact, the group was already under a great deal of pressure to reform from the outside and inside, with former members of the group reporting despotic control by the leader and many men who had been excommunicated putting pressure on those inside to leave. We don’t know whether the entire matter – if indeed abuse was taking place – might have been handled in this way, because the state intervened to impose the cruelest possible solution: namely, taking children from their mothers’ arms and putting them in the hands of government social workers.

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