Posted on 10/13/2014 1:48:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This latest story from our brave new world may blow your mind, so I'll read straight from the Chicago Tribune: "A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise their now 2-year-old daughter in an all-white community."
Now, I don't doubt the lesbian couple's love for the child. But I find it troubling which challenges the couple was willing and isn't willing to tolerate. They're suing because of the difficulties of raising a black child in a white community, but they were perfectly willing to risk raising the child without a father—a situation that the best evidence suggests poses far greater consequences for the child. Make no mistake: this is one of those stories that's a mirror of our culture's view of sex and children.
There is no doubt that having a mom and a dad in the home is the best situation for healthy development of children. The evidence is overwhelming. Children with fathers in the home tend to do better in school and in life in general. Children from fatherless homes are more likely to succumb to drugs and alcohol, suicide, and a host of social maladies. It's not always the case, of course, but when it's not it should be the exception… not the new rule.
A while back, I interviewed science writer Paul Raeburn on "BreakPoint This Week" about his book "Do Fathers Matter." Now Raeburn isn't a Christian, and he wouldn't take a position on the issue of same-sex marriage. But there was no doubt in his mind that the overwhelming conclusion of the research is that fathers matter. A lot. Relationally, emotionally, spiritually—even biologically!
Well, back to Ohio. The plaintiff is asking the judge for $50,000 because she didn't get the baby she ordered through the sperm donation process. Which brings up the other troubling reality in this story.
When we were discussing this news item, Shane Morris, one of our Colson Center writers, wryly observed, "Grandma always says, 'If it's the wrong color, you can return it,' when she gives us sweaters. Hearing that said of a baby girl makes me not want to live on this planet anymore."
The wife of another of our writers said, "The message to the child is something like, 'We love you, honey, but we are suing the people who made your existence possible.'" And then she added, "We need to pray for that child."
Indeed. Whatever the effect of our current social experimentation of intentionally producing children to not have either a father or a mother, I cannot imagine that this child will easily be able to come to terms with such mixed messages inherent in the lawsuit.
On multiple levels, this story illustrates our new and enormous cultural blind spot. Sexual autonomy is now considered the highest good in our society. And it comes as a package deal with so-called "reproductive freedom." To quote my friend and co-author Sean McDowell, we want sex without babies, and babies without sex.
And the great tragic irony is that our so-called freedom means that our children are not free, nor are they seen as the unique creations of God that they are. They're the products of our illusions of autonomy enabled by technological advances.
We now wish to create children on our terms… through science. We choose the traits that make them desirable—eye color, hair color, skin color; athletic prowess; intelligence; and so on—not simply because they are. And if at any time they displease us—either through skin color, disability, or the mere timing of their birth, we feel fully justified in getting someone else to eliminate them, or at least pay us for our inconvenience.
Jesus said, "Let the children come to me." And so ought we. As His Church, those lovingly adopted into His family, may we show our dehumanizing culture, and its children, a better way. Red and yellow, black and white, they are all precious in His sight.
I do.
They ordered her "father" from a sperm catalog. They did not get the one that they ordered so now they want money. Basically, they are saying that her existence was a mistake.
The poor little girl will be forever known as the kid whose lesbian mothers sued a sperm company for damages because they did not get the sperm that they ordered and got her instead. You don't think that is going to give her a hell of a lot more mental anguish in life than being half-black like Obama?
The legs on that book cover are not nearly massive enough.
What you see is what you get.
Woman and a woman...
What you don't see is what you get.
Chuckles...
Even more, they are just mad because the daughter doesn’t fulfill the delusion that they are her parents, only one of them has any biological relation whatsoever, and it looks with the dark skin like it is not related to both of them. However, facts are facts, only one Mom is the mother, deal with it. Whine all you want, it’s not like I whine as a father because my son seems to inherit more of my wife’s traits than mine.
The racism here is OBVIOUS, but where are Al and Jesse, the MSM and all the usual race-baiting suspects? Are they afraid of confronting the LESBIANS??? Typical leftist hypocrisy and cowardice!!
It’s not racism to the political elite. Consider this, the left justifies abortion on demand, often because of either material inconvenience, or because you worry that your child may be disabled or not have the genes that you want. This is part of the same. They wanted the one woman’s child to turn out white to reinforce the delusion that the two women were parents of the child when in reality only one is the biological parent.
Surprised they just didn’t mark “rejected” in Sharpie on him and send him back UPS to the baby store with a request for a refund.
For the little girl's sake, I hope they put her up for adoption. I've known and seen plenty of adopted kids over my lifetime who didn't look a bit like their parents but turned out perfectly normal. Almost none of those parents adopted to make a fashion statement, they adopted because some little girl or boy needed a home which they were willing to provide.
The difference between a normal heterosexual adoptive couple and these two dykes is like night and day.
Well said. Delusion.
Gays try to convince themselves and everyone else that they are just like heteros and pretend as they may they cannot and never will be the same.
“Gays try to convince themselves and everyone else that they are just like heteros and pretend as they may they cannot and never will be the same.”
Wonder why God made them that way, or allows them to be that way. A conundrum?
I think the pregnant one went out and did a little free-lance sperm gathering. Now she is busted, and trying to cover her tracks, so to speak.
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