The Bed and the hair
The most titillating detail in the raid on the polygamous compound in Eldorado, Tex., was The Bed. A Texas Ranger document reported that the search of the FLDS temple found a rumpled bed with a woman's hair on it that led to speculation it was part of some ritual marriage consummation of evil geezers to very young girls.Lordy! That nasty thought was enough to briefly divert the nation's attention from "American Idol."
But the Tribune's Brooke Adams reports that a Mormon scholar has testified before a Texas judge that the scandalous supposition is wrong.
William John Walsh, who has studied the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for 18 years, testified at hearing last week at which it was decided more than 400 FLDS children would be separated from their families. Similar beds are found in the mainstream LDS temples for members who feel faint during rituals, Walsh told the judge. It's common to fast before doing several hours of "temple work," he said, and members sometimes feel ill and use the beds to recover.
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No one has printed any of Walsh's credentials as an "expert". What makes him less suspect than the rest of the FLDS and their apologists
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