“That said, Natural Law says that any fit parent has a God given right to raise his/her child.”
And that is where your argument falls on its face. Until Castro got involved, the father wanted his son to remain with the Miami relatives. There are records of him talking to them to assure his safety.
It was a groundswell of all you “Natural Rights” folks and “Fathers’Rights” folks and the National Council of Churches and Methodist groups that made it easy for Clinton and his crime syndicate to do their dirty work.
Elian Gonzalez was the last case in my memory when “Fathers’ Rights” ever became a cause. Just crickets now.
And what is your proof that the father wanted him returned home? The father was constantly under the gun of Castro even when he came to the U.S.
Read this and then let me hear about your Natural Law.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/elian/cousin.htm
You’d probably prefer children to accompany their natural parents into the Holocaust gas chambers too.
“...Elian Gonzalez was the last case in my memory when “Fathers’ Rights” ever became a cause. Just crickets now....”
Ain’t that the truth.
From what I recall, his father was the custodial parent and the mother and her boyfriend attempted to take him to the US.
Do you have any copies of the records showing that Elian’s father intially wanted him to stay in the U.S.? If I see proof of this, I might change my view, but I have never heard this.
The bottom line is, if we, as Americans, do not believe in the most basic right of a parent to raise his his/her own child, we might as well throw out all our Constitutional rights (though the Democrats are already doing a good job of trampling them), and stop claiming any sort of moral high ground.
And spare me the “gas chamber” nonsense. His propaganda value has made him one of Cuba’s elites, so he isn’t suffering, much less dead. Plus, I’m not sure any Jewish parent in a Nazi contolled land would have demanded his child be returned from America to face a gas chamber.