They went to Africa and preached against homosexuality to the point where Uganda is going to pass a law making homosexuality a crime punishable by death. This happened AFTER a missionary visit by a well known Christian Right anti gay preacher.
Notice I didn't say ALL Christians. I mean those on the far right , they digust me.
The far right are always out destroying God's world. (pun on Doing Gods Work). From Bush cutting funding to contraceptives to AIDs ridden regions, to the lack of regulation of international adoption. This lack of regulation is because the far right have people making big money out of taking African kids and bringing them to the US under the auspus of 'adoption' because they're 'orphans'. Most kids do actually have family, some father and mother, and the some in government appear to be making a cut out of it by 'selling' their children to people who then take them to CWA- one agency under fire. Eithopia refuses to sign the international adoption treaty (?) and adoption agencies take advantage of it, making processes open-slather. And the far right put pressure on politicians to NOT reform America's systems, because they make money from it (or some of them do) and 'adoption' is highly regarded. Probably quite regularly children are told they're "going on holiday" or "study tour" only to find out they're leaving Ethiopia forever.
Link 1Link 2This is a lawyer for CWA, a major adoption agency, who have been accused of the above practices.
JOLLEY:Why didn’t CWA have a program keeping those children within their family?
CURTIS BOSTIC: Does ABC?
JOLLEY: No… because that’s not our job.
CURTIS BOSTIC: Do you? Because it’s not your job? Is it CWA’s job? CWA has it as a job because CWA cares about people. It’s a peer reviewed, accredited, Hague approved 501C3 organisation. Your business has an $850 million budget in 2008. You do nothing to help the starving kids in Ethiopia and yet here we sit while you throw stones at the way a non profit organisation tries to pour out and give to those people. Isn’t there an irony to that?
How ignorant and pigheaded can you get? Oh right, we're talking about the FAR right. Got it.
The lawyer also taped the interview himself and posted it on the internet, because "ABC has misrepresented things that have occurred in Ethiopia and so they’re cautious"
The agency also reported the parents of an adopted child to child welfare, calling them an 'unfit parent' when the parent complained to the consumer affairs organisation in her area.
Oh, and put down that New Testament.
Dang, you got me. Me, only really listening to the New Testament now because of much of the distortion and irrelevance of the the old's take on 'living' (ie Leviticus).
