But in Idaho, Nixon-era religious shield laws protect them from charges of child neglect. It’s what separates them from the outside world – that conviction. They know that the outside world is going to judge them and they see that as a weakness of the outside world, that the outside world’s faith is weak. He seems to have an informal position interfacing with the outside world, turning up to hearings, talking to journalists, taking the church’s message to the outside world. He and his family cared for them in the way their faith dictated and in a way the outside world finds unbelievable.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2018 09:56 UTC