FLDS

Unless you're living under a bridge somewhere, you've probably heard of the FLDS polygamist group in Texas. You know, the group where 400 children were forcibly removed from their parents and are now involved in the biggest custody battle in American history. This is one of those cases that causes people to really examine large enclaves of people with scrutiny. If they group together and are isolated from other people, they must be up to something, right? The whole debacle just breaks my brain a little.

Anyway, I was at a family shindig recently, talking to my cousins, when the FLDS people came up. Specifically, they came up because one of the younger cousins had previously lived with her mother in a very cloistered, conservative enclave. My cousin was trying to think of a way to describe them and stumbled on his words, saying that they were kind of like the FLDS, but not as extreme. Then, he succinctly said, "You know, skirt people."

Such an apt analogy.