Another good reason to have disdain for the current regime.

A while back I posted a piece on my forum about the Guatamalian government cracking down on adoption, and I made the comment that it was about government controll & money. Until I saw the article posted below last night in Carolina Hope’s blog archives, I thought it was problem first and formost with the Guatemalian government. But it appears that our own “friends” from Babylon on the Potomac may be partially guilty as well. The US government, could indeed be seen as more guilty. 

Not only do they “legalize”, enforce, & fund the killing of babies here and abroad in the name of “freedom”. I’m sure, for instance that this fine fellow has goten not only legal sanction, but some of your tax dollars for his grisly “services” of “cancel(ing) human souls before they become babies “.

 

 

Prescott Bush (Dubya’s grandaddy) was the Treasurer on the original Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of America ( and close friends with the notorious Margrett Sanger). The Bush family made a fortune trading with/ supporting Nazis & their eugenics program.

George Bush the First, when he was in the Senate in the sixties earned a crude nickname, because one of ther causes he pushed the hardest was condom distribution & population controll. He was “pro-choice” the first time he ran for President & had a “change of heart” when he became Reagan’s VP.

He taught his son well that the way to get elected is to spout a few “pro-life” plattitudes & throw the Religious Right an occasional bone. This way, you can pursue whatever agenda you want & they will give you their undying devotion ( This technique was perfected by the evil genius, Karl Rove).

Now we find that the Executive Branch of our government, in a ”Conservative, Evangelical, Republican” administration is making 

it harder — or in some cases impossible — to help orphans.This bureaucratic nightmare is duplicated both by the Central Government & State Governments. In almost every country, our State Department directly – through interferences as detailed below – or indirectly —  through policies that make nations that were formerly friendly now wary or even adversarial — has condemned “thousands of abandoned (children to) face spending their childhood in orphanages . . .” that could have “. . . found a home in the U.S. if only government had stayed out of the way. “

The same thing goes on at the state level. Under the guise of “protecting childen” children are harmed by bureaucracies that value power, money, their system, & their agenda. In most states, Child Protective Services or HHS or whatever agency oversees foster care/ adoption gets more funding based on how many kids are “in the system”. Therefore, there is a vested institutional interest for many in keeping as many kids in Foster Care as possible.

In some states, there is a decided & official bias against Christian families as well (more to come on this).

However, while it is important to fight government intrusions & usurpations that kill or opress people, it is more important to recognize what one of my Elders constantly reminds me :
“This too is sifted through the hands of God” for the eternal good of His people, the glory of Christ, and the ultimate advance of His Kingdom.

 

 

 He who sits in the heavens still laughs at the conspiracies and schemes of human rulers (Psalm 2). He is still the one who is in controll of all things, all nations, all peoples, every event (Acts 17:23-26); and they are being worked out perfectly for His glory.

I had lunch with that same Elder yesterday & he told me that he had been thinking of the fact that the “hairs of our head are numbered”. He gave me the exact figures, but it was something like 120,000 hairs on the average person in a lifetime. On 6.7 billion people that means that tens of trillions of hairs, are counted and known by God. It is this God to whom we take our problems — personal needs & international adoption crisises.

 

 

 In prayer meeting Sunday, we read the passage when the Angel of the Lord (a preincarnate Christ) appears to Joshua.  Joshua asks if he is for them or their enemies.  When he is told neither, and it is revealed who’s presense he was in, Joshua “fell down and worshipped”. This is the great need of these orphans,  of familes desperate to adopt, of a nation that is bent towards death, and of our own souls ( saved or lost) — that Christ would show us Himself; that we would fall down & worship Him; that we would go out in grateful love & obiedience to Him to advance His Kingdom by discipling the nations & serving the helpless; and ultimately that He would be our captain leading the way.IF God is with us, who can be against us?!?Let us not see the efforts of godless, rebellious governements to stand in the way of adoption as an excuse to merely ring our hands, but an effort by the gates of hell to stand in the way of the Church Triumphant. Oppostion from God’s enemies in the world is a sign that we are doing something that is pleasing to God.

May we repent of trust in politicians (whoever they are) and reclaim the culture for our King in the way that Christians have always had the most impact. There’s probably and orphan out there that your family or a family in your church could adopt. If not, there is likely a family, an orphanage, a Crisis Pregnancy Center, an Adoption or Pro-life ministry that could use your support. We worry about what the world is doing; Christ is knocking at the door of His Church.

Here’s the article that inspired the above rant. May God have mercy :

For some reason, this link has not been working, so I’ll post the text here.
(go to the original article if you can to get the full picture & supporting links)
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/JohnStossel/2008/02/06/usa_makes_adoption_harder?page=full

 

USA Makes Adoption Harder
By John Stossel

Do you want to rescue an abandoned child and give him a loving home?

Don’t even try, says the U.S. State Department.

That’s not exactly what the bureaucrats said, but it’s close. The State Department says the Guatemalan adoption system “unduly enriches” so-called baby brokers and that “Guatemala has not established the required central authority to oversee intercountry adoption.”

“Central authority”? This from our government? They sound like Soviet apparatchiks.

Last December, the U.S. consul even butted his way into the Guatemalan Congress to make sure a sweeping new adoption law was up to American standards. The law is designed to put those profit-making brokers out of business by making adoption a government monopoly. But to thousands of kids awaiting adoption, a government monopoly could be a death sentence.

Yes, there have been horror stories about adoption fraud. Some children were stolen from families. This is horrible, but far from the norm. Out of more than 100 cases of alleged “baby stealing,” only five were confirmed as true, says Guatemalan journalist Marta Yolanda Diaz-Duran. That’s five crimes versus about 4,000 legal adoptions from Guatemala in 2006 alone. Guatemala has been the second leading source of adopted children coming to America — after China and ahead of Russia. The adoption-broker system — which relied on entrepreneurs providing a service for a fee — worked well enough that Guatemala was an adoption success story.

American adoption agencies (charging a fee) worked with Guatemalan adoption brokers (also charging a fee) to match willing couples with the right children. There was a near-perfect safeguard against baby stealing: two rounds of DNA tests to prove the biological mother gave consent.

The process wasn’t cheap — parents paid $25,000 or more, and brokers who spent months or years jumping though the bureaucratic hoops — made, horrors, profit! Hence our State Department’s outrage about adoptions that “unduly enrich.” The sentiment was captured perfectly by a UNICEF representative who huffed to The New York Times that adoption “has become a business instead of a social service.”

Oh, yes, everyone loves “social service.” But when adoption was a government-run social service in Guatemala, the results were disastrous.

I happened to be in Guatemala City last month visiting the Americas’ most free-market university, Universidad Francisco Marroquin. UFM’s president took me to visit Ines Ayau, a nun who runs an orphanage that was formerly in the hands of the government. The children are well cared for now, but before her church took over, Ayau said, the government staff had forced some children into prostitution. The orphanage itself was rat-infested and without electricity, and the government used the facility to funnel money to cronies. “Thirty-six persons were working, (but) 105 were on the payroll,”

Yet U.S. officials want adoption back in the hands of government?!

There’s little reason to expect the current government to do much better. Guatemala is one of the more corrupt nations in the world, 111th out of 179 countries, says Transparency International.

Even if the new bureaucracy isn’t corrupt, there’s little chance it will process adoptions as quickly as the brokers did because without profit, it has no incentive to move the kids through the cumbersome adoption process. When other countries have put adoption in government hands, adoptions slowed or stopped. Paraguay went from sending more than 400 kids to the U.S. in 1996 to sending zero in 2006.

That’s a tragedy.

It may make some people uncomfortable that a middleman charges $5,000 to arrange an adoption, but profit isn’t evil.

Someone has to be compensated for arranging the DNA tests and leading hopeful parents past the government’s obstacles. The orphanages need funds. If some Americans are willing to pay even $50,000 to adopt, that’s not a bad thing. NGOs, politicians and bureaucrats may call it disgusting “human trafficking,” but I call it finding love for children who desperately need it.

Guatemala has followed America’s lead, and now thousands of abandoned Guatemalan kids face spending their childhood in orphanages. Many could have found a home in the U.S. if only government — American and Guatemalan — had stayed out of the way.