Mercy

The Western Confucian writes:

Disturbing is the American media's giving of the benefit of the doubt to these "American church members [who] say they were saving orphans". They only "succumbed to an urge many humanitarian groups feel but resist," we are told.

"An elder girl, maybe eight or nine years old, told us crying 'I am not an orphan. I do have my parents," said a European aid worker. Did these Idohans not understand Haitian Creole? That is the only benefit of the doubt that they should be given, but if they did not, they should not have been doing any other aid work than the most basic of the Corporal Works of Mercy. Certainly, they should not have been engaged in what is huge money-making industry, one that feeds off tragedy abroad and demographic implosion (and some misguided good intentions) at home.

Sadly, "liberal" America (and these Baptists are every bit as "liberal" as the rest of the "Religious Right" and just about every other American) probably still thinks that even that crying Haitian girl who protested "I do have my parents" would be better off taken from them and raised in Suburbia. Such is our dogmatic faith in salvation through material progress.