Hosea 4:12-14

"Wine and new wine
take away the understanding.
My people consult a piece of
wood,
and their divining rod gives
them oracles.
For a spirit of whoredom has led
them astray,
and they have played the
whore, forsaking their God.
They sacrifice on the tops of the
mountains,
and make offerings upon
the hills,
under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
because their shade is good.

Therefore your daughters play
the whore,
and your daughters-in-law
commit adultery.
I will not punish your daughters
when they play the whore,
nor your daughters-in-law when
they commit adultery;
for the men themselves go aside
with whores,
and sacrifice with temple
prositiutes;
thus a people without understanding come to
ruin."

When I read this section, what came to mind was the fundamentalist practice of polygamy; especially in relation to "Reformed" or "Fundamentalist" Mormon culture. More specifically, I'm thinking of Warren Jeffs on trial for trying to coerce a (at least one - sure there were others) 14 year old girl to marry her 18 year old cousin. I guess I can imagine God saying to the rulers of such practices, "I will not punish your daughters, your daughters-in-law -- you are the leaders, you know better." But it's scary sometimes in fundamentalism and mainstream religion when leaders DON'T seem to know better - they think what they are doing is FOR God!