Comments on: Haitian kids: people or puppies?

By: Fr Dave

Fr Dave — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:47:31 +0000

I’ve got three they can collect….

By: SweetWilliamNow

SweetWilliamNow — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:02:01 +0000

I really really like “the insipid narcissism of the Properly Churched.”
Wow!

By: Dennis the Vizsla

Dennis the Vizsla — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:46:49 +0000

But God said to! Look, we have it in writing! Ummm, somewhere …

By: Bill Collins

Bill Collins — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:33:16 +0000

As Aunt Catherine says, “There’s no right way to do a wrong thing.”

By: Mr. Budd

Mr. Budd — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:25:47 +0000

Nazarenes from Neptune? Sanctified Brethren from Saturn? Unitarians from Uranus? I’ve got a call into the Men in Black!

By: MrsDirtyBoots

MrsDirtyBoots — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:30:16 +0000

You hit the nail on the head almostgotit. SCARY!

By: almostgotit

almostgotit — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:11:00 +0000

@Nance: Baptists from Boise, Methodists from Mars… alliterative allusions to wrong-headed missionaries of all sorts, who yes have hit Haiti before.
@Felicia: I agree with you, too… faith-based groups have done tremendous good following the earthquake in Haiti, but this particular group doesn’t seem to be following the mind or heart of any God I would recognize.
@marsquat: how very sad that other children will suffer too, including legitimately-adoptable ones. And anything further to create distrust with a country that needs us is just tragic, straight up.
@Cuz: Yikes! Perfect image, one we should perhaps be teaching in the schools. And the sanctuaries.
@Lavenderbay: as in, imperialists hoping to recolonize Haiti? It is a beautiful place, Idaho, with some lovely people… but also some of the craziest people on the planet.

By: Lavenderbay

Lavenderbay — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:06:47 +0000

Wow, I never realized Idaho was a francophone state.

By: Cousin Russell

Cousin Russell — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:20:59 +0000

Good post there! These kinds of disasters really open the door for some crazy things being done, “in their best interest” of course… Can you imagine the outcry if a flock of folks headed for New Orleans after Katrina and swooped up kids. Pandemonium!

By: marsquat

marsquat — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:28:07 +0000

They KIDNAPPED the kids- don’t we have pretty hard and fast consequences for that? Should be no different. They also provided further fodder for Unisef to ban ALL adoptions out of Haiti (or influence the governments) to ban all adoptions- even those that are basically finalized- just waiting for the final go ahead. STUPID! Two interesting blogs of missionaries in Haiti that talk about all this: rollingsinhaiti.wordpress.com and livesayhaiti.blogspot.com

Thanks for this post, Gotit.