Must read- Kidnapping for Jesus

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from disasters by selling children.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/the-missionary-impulse/?ref=opinion
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The children would be whisked across the border into the Dominican Republic. Food, shelter, legal permits: the basics would be worked out by divine blueprint. For now, they needed funds — tax deductable!

What’s more, there would soon be “opportunities for adoption,” the group mentioned, “for loving Christian parents who would otherwise not be able to afford to adopt.”

Silsby and her live-in nanny, Charisa Coulter, are still in a Haitian jail, where they have denied charges of child kidnapping. A judge there has agreed to release the two this week, but the case shows once again how easy it is to manipulate people in the name of an all-loving God.

“Kidnapping for Jesus” is what many, including outraged Idahoans, have called it in reader response to newspaper stories about the missionaries. Silsby says it’s all a misunderstanding, and her intentions were good.

At the least, the curious case of Laura Silsby raises questions about cultural imperialism: what makes a scofflaw from nearly all-white Idaho with no experience in adoption or rescue services think she has a right to bring religion and relief to a country with its own cultural, racial and spiritual heritage?

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The one thing missing here is the amount of profit anticipated by this great Christian sale of black children.

[theHandpuppet]

1. K&R

Thanks for posting this. There needs to be a national debate and federal investigation into the ongoing trafficking of children!

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2. It's not just trafficking

it's allowing tourists to rape our pre-teens and teens while the scum of our own societies (including relatives of these children) get rich.