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Polygamy Showdown: Balancing Child Welfare, Religious Freedom

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Inside the First Amendment

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By Charles C. Haynes
First Amendment Center senior scholar

Texas officials are trying hard to keep the focus on child abuse — and away from religion — in the custody battle involving 437 children seized from a polygamist religious sect this month.

If only it were so simple.

Like it or not, this conflict is about far more than the issue of older men having sex with under-age girls in…

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