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Children Rescued from Evangelical Christian Church in Arkansas

Posted on: November 18, 2008 9:05 PM, by Greg Laden

It started out as a church. Then the children were taken away because, according to authorities, they were being held in some sort of hareem of young girls for the church leader's pleasure. Now, they will probably start calling it a 'cult.' But it isn't. It's just a church.

State officials on Tuesday took into protective custody 21 children associated with an evangelical group whose founder faces federal child sex charges.

The children, all younger than 18 and part of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, were taken while custody hearings were being held for six girls seized during a September raid of Alamo's compound in Fouke, in southwest Arkansas. The court must decide whether the girls should be returned to their parents or remain in state care.

Authorities took three children into custody Tuesday at the courthouse in Texarkana, 130 miles southwest of Little Rock. Police seized the other 18 children from two vans during a traffic stop, said Julie Munsell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services. ...

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Tony Alamo's project has already been known as a cult for decades - even before that quirky business with his wife's corpse.

Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | November 18, 2008 9:59 PM

2

I lived at this place. I thought it was a missionary group. What a joke. I lived there when Susan Alamo was there. She wore the pants in the family. If only Tony could have run it like a "real Christian organization." We were told if we left, we would either "turn into a homosexual, be raped or killed." There's an excellent book to read, "The Kingdom of the Cults" by Walter Martin. It tells all about these groups. Susan told we who we could marry, how many children we could have. I am SO thankful to be out of the group. I look forward to the day when the group is fully dis banded..

Posted by: Ellen | November 19, 2008 8:22 AM

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Tsushogo..blah, blah, as a thread hijack, that was big..and long.. and not relevant to anything. Please find an editor, because NO ONE IS GOING TO READ THAT STREAM OF DRIVEL.

Meanwhile, back to the subject, which was Xtian cult indulges in underage sex/child abuse. And the surprise quotient is ZERO. You maybe thought that only the Catholics did it? Sorry boys and girls, but it is an integral part of the meme-plex.

Posted by: MacTurk | October 24, 2010 7:43 AM

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