This is the same argument I use for why I think the niqab is not really based on free will of a consenting adult and should not be allowed in a free egalitarian society.
Having said that, I get it that it's a fine line.
I just don't see how you equate wearing a veil to
**** children.
This is an article on the leader of their cult:
"Six years after Warren Jeffs was first arrested and later sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting children, it's almost as though the fundamentalist leader, whom the faithful call their "prophet," never left Colorado City.
Jeffs' followers, who live in the desert town nestled on the border between Arizona and Utah, are a radical splinter group of the mainstream Mormon church who call themselves the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/jailed-polygamist-leader-warren-jeffs-issues-hundreds-orders/story?id=17770090But sure....fashion choices are so clearly the same.