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On a diary over at firedoglake.com "Baptists Charged in Haiti & My Talk with Laura Silsby's Employee"
one of the commenters asks us to question how we treat our poor people here in the U.S.  What is the difference between taking children from people because they are poor and putting them in "good homes" with "good people".

I come to the same conclusion every time I hear a story like the so-called Christians kidnapping Haitian children and children here living in poverty being placed in foster care.  Why don't we just solve poverty?  It can be done in less than 30 years according to those who study this issue.  We have the means to do it.  It would cost less than bailing out AIG.  Until then we will be appalled at stories like the brazen Ms Silsby and her cohorts in Haiti.

There is another great diary on this subject also on the recommended list over at firedoglake called   "Naivete and Best Intentions or Trafficking in Children for Religious Purposes?"

I was particularly drawn to this quote by Anthea Butler at Religion Dispatches,:

These ten do-gooders walked into the trap many well meaning whiteevangelical Christians fall into: those poor brown/black/yellow/redpeople need My help. Jesus wants Meto help them. To much of White American Evangelical Christianity the We often means Me. It’s what God Called Me to do. It’s what God would want Me to do. The problem with the Me mentality of much of conservative Evangelical Christianity is that they often can’t see the We—thepeople of Haiti—who love their kids so much they’re willing to let somewhite people who claim to be “Christians” take them away to what theypromise will be “a better life.”

    

 

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