Never, ever again will I look at Religious Right wackadoodles as benign

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-06/evangelicals-adoption-battlecry/?cid=hp:justposted2

For the past week, the news from Haiti has been dominated by the story of 10 American evangelicals from Idaho who were caught at the border of the Dominican Republic attempting to take 33 Haitian children, many with living parents, out of the country without documentation. The Americans, missionaries with the recently created New Life Children’s Refuge, were arrested and charged with kidnapping and criminal conspiracy—a reprieve from the child trafficking charges they may have faced.

The details that emerged about the group’s plans and leader, Laura Silsby, were unsavory. Although Silsby, the legally embattled CEO of a personal shopping business, claimed that the group never intended to put the children up for adoption, an itinerary for New Life’s mission, published by an affiliated Southern Baptist church, bluntly described a plan to “gather 100 orphans from the streets and collapsed orphanages” onto a bus, then take them to a hotel in the Dominican Republic. There, New Life hoped to build permanent orphanage facilities, including a beachfront restaurant and “seaside villas” for prospective adoptive parents—amenities that underscore their understanding of local adoption residency requirements, even as they claimed ignorance of Haitian law. Additional planning and fundraising documents described the group’s goal to “equip each child” with the opportunity “for adoption into a loving Christian family,” and help them “find new life in Christ.”

After the arrests, Silsby and supporters explained that they’d been called by God to help orphans in Haiti, that they were “acting not only in faith but God’s faith.”

The news of an adoption organization driven by missionary zeal surprised many, but it shouldn’t. Although New Life’s illegal actions have been condemned by other religious adoption agencies, their sense of calling fits into a growing movement of American evangelical churches embracing a new orphan theology that urges Christians to see adoption and “orphan-care” as an integral part of their faith—and a means of spreading the gospel.

lots more at link

[geckosfeet]

1. Yeah. Lets go capitialize on a catastrophe by stealing children to sell to rich people.

It's the xtian thing to do.

God approved this message. I heard 'im.

::sarcasm thingy::

[givemebackmycountry]

2. The "New Life Mission"

You are about to embark on a "New Life Mission".
Too bad it's going to be behind bars.
And GOD don't give a rats ass about every single one of you.

Enjoy.

Pray motherfuckers, because you ain't got anybody else that's going to help you.

[MichaelHarris]

3. I really hope

this story causes all of the nations involved in baby selling to take a long, hard look at the "missionaries" within their borders.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. I remember stories of missionaries in the South Pacific after the tsunami

that purported they would not give out the aid supplies they had unless the people would first read the bible with them.. or some such other act of faith.

[rd_kent]

15. No need to narrow it down to just "baby selling", they need to look at ALL the missionaries

and just what they are really doing.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Extreme Christain zeal used in adoption should not be surprising..remember "Snowflake babies"?

Wikipedia

Snowflake children is a term used by organizations that promote the adoption of embryos left over from in vitro fertilization to describe children that result, where the children's parents were not the original cell donors. These embryos are transferred to infertile couples via embryo adoption, although the legal process of taking ownership of an embryo differs from that of traditional adoption. According to a CBS News article dated July 28, 2005, the term "Snowflake" was coined by the first agency to provide the transfer service, Nightlight Christian Adoptions. One hundred thirty-four children have been born from this program.<1>

Members of the Nightlight Christian Adoptions, the Embryo Adoption Awareness Campaign, and others now also use the term for the frozen embryos themselves.

While the term "Snowflake babies" has been used to describe babies born in this manner, the first snowflake children are no longer babies. According to the CBS News article, the first snowflake baby, Hannah, was born in 1998 to Marlene and John Strege.

President George W. Bush has made public appearances together with snowflake children while speaking about his support for adult stem cell research and his opposition to embryonic stem cell research.

[ChadwickHenryWard]

9. "Snowflake babies" is so odiously saccharine - who do they think they're fooling?

They think they are so good at using language like that to frame the debate - they're gushing over how precious these frozen eight-cell blastocysts are. Give me a fucking break. You kill more living cells than that when you cut your goddamn fingernails. 12,500 of those embryos would fit inside the brain of a fly, which nobody gives a second thought about killing. And who are these assholes who adopt and embryo? What about all those kids in China who are abandoned by their parents? They're already fucking born, what about helping them. As George Carlin said, "I just think they like the idea of birth. That's why so many of them are 'born again.'"

And it's just disgusting for George Bush to try to look compassionate. He cries and cries for those frozen embryos, but does he shed any tears for the mangled bodies of children in Iraq?

[BrklynLiberal]

11. Well said. I agree with every word

[uberllama42]

13. "taking ownership of an embryo"

These people think embryos are equivalent to human beings. How can they talk about who owns them? That makes it even fucking weirder.

[patrice]

5. Some of those "good work$" I understand Palin just referred to. Funny thing about the "good works"

that some people envi$ion, they often have a career of $ome$ort attached to them.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. LOL. In$pired $pelling.

[PDJane]

8. Extreme religiosity is very seldom benign.

[beam me up scottie]

10. Every disaster is like a fire sale at Sak's

Who knows how many children were already sold.

[hootinholler]

12. Are they affiliated with the New Life Church?

Ted Haggard's outfit?

-Hoot

[WVRICK13]

14. All Right Wing Religious Groups

are fascist, trying to control the larger population according to their god. I hear people freaking about the treatment of women by right wing Muslim countries while advocating for a conservative christian government. America is sinking rapidly into a fourth world state of mind. There is a reason our founding fathers advocated for the separation of church and state.