I'm just trying to point out that putting children in the custody of a government agency is not necessarily a good thing, especially when this is done en masse for political/religious reasons.
Your idea that this raid took place "en masse for political/religious reasons" is the purest kind of unsupported assertion. You don't have a clue what specific information authorities have concerning this group or their compound, so you blithely assume they have none and are just acting as a jackbooted Gestapo or something, to satisfy your own set of biases against governmental agencies in general.
What
is known about this group strikes me (and most others here, I think I can say without exaggeration) is plenty enough to warrant the action taken. The leader, the self-proclaimed "prophet", who had the place built and the people moved there, is a convicted pedophile or pedophile-enabler, with the ability to convince large numbers of people to follow him more or less blindly, and to isolate themselves from contact with the outside world. In other words, another potential Jim Jones or David Koresh. And the allegation of forced marriage of underaged girls to older men at the Texas compound only mirrors the well-established practice of the same thing in the Utah stronghold.
It was a big raid because there were a hell of a lot of people there, including 400-some children, any of whom may well have been exposed to the same forms of manipulation and sexual abuse as the ones in Utah. Now, you can go on justifying that practice, if you like, but at least have the intellectual honesty to admit that's what you're doing.
The prejudice against this Mormon cult-group you allege to be behind all this isn't prejudice against Mormonism. It isn't even prejudice against "plural marriage",
per se. It's prejudice against exploitation and abuse of minors, and I, for one, am right glad such prejudice exists. Are you?
caw