{"id":27441,"date":"2018-01-16T17:25:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27441"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:25:28","slug":"punish-religious-perverts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27441","title":{"rendered":"How do you punish these religious perverts?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have been using the term — or some variation of it — “religious perverts” to describe the Islamic State and other terrorists who commit dastardly acts in the name of a great world religion.<\/p>\n

That term now applies to a California husband and wife who’ve been arrested and charged with crimes that simply overwhelm our sense of decency.<\/p>\n

David and Louise Turpin are locked up in the Riverside County jail on multiple counts of child endangerment\/abuse and related crimes.<\/p>\n

Police raided their home and found 13 children chained to their beds. They had been starved to within inches of their lives. The youngest of the Turpins’ children is 2 years of age. The oldest of them has reached adulthood.<\/p>\n

Bail has been set at $9 million for each of them. If I were King of the World, I’d make the bail a hundred times greater.<\/p>\n

Why did they do this? Family members allege the couple follows some sort of religious tenet. What in the name of the Holy Father can motivate anyone to do such a thing?<\/p>\n

If it is a form of religious fervor that drove the Turpins to do this, then all I am left to say is … please, God, shower your mercy on those poor children.<\/p>\n

The so-called mother<\/em> and father<\/em> of these children need never to be free ever again.<\/p>\n

One neighbor told the media he had “no idea this was going on.” It’s easy, I suppose, to condemn neighbors for failing to act. The house reportedly smelled to high heaven.<\/p>\n

However, maybe we can ask ourselves: Does anyone with a semblance of decency ever envision adults shackling their children to their beds and damn near starving them to death?<\/p>\n

Take a good look at the faces of the Turpins attached to this blog post. You are staring straight into the faces of evil.<\/p>\n\n

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I have been using the term — or some variation of it — “religious perverts” to describe the Islamic State and other terrorists who commit dastardly acts in the name of a great world religion. That term now applies to a California husband and wife who’ve been arrested and charged with crimes that simply overwhelm … Continue reading How do you punish these religious perverts?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[2362,7531],"class_list":["post-27441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-religious-news","tag-islamic-state","tag-religious-perverts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27443,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27441\/revisions\/27443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}