Posted on 03/12/2002 1:26:04 PM PST by antaresequity
This, I can tell you with total certainty: It's not.
Here is a link to Antioch Bible Church's adoption ministry website.
I know this man personally.
For those who might be wondering about him, I have to say that I have never met a man with greater integrity than Ken Hutcherson. Antioch Bible Church is a multi-racial congregation, and Pastor Hutch is not the slightest bit afraid of what people think of him and his uncompromising views. (He recently roomed with Rush Limbaugh on a fishing trip, incidentally.) He has been known to hold accountable other black pastors who wish to exclude white people from their church activities; he is very straightfoward regarding issues like homosexuality.
I think he has a problem with the fact that it costs an arm and a leg to adopt a child. Consider this paragraph in the Seattle Times interview, above: "The most discriminated-against couples in America today are white couples trying to adopt white children," he said. White babies are treated as the "Mercedes" of adoptees, or black children are deemed less valuable, and either position is immoral, he said.
Say what you will about him - disagree with his methods if you think you have a better idea - but understand that he's doing this because he loves children and he wants to see them have homes.
This is a good man, people.
a man goes to the butcher shop to buy some human brains.
looking into the case he sees:
white brains- 50 cents per lb
japanese brains- 75 cents per lb
latin brains- $1 per lb
african brains- $2 per lb
and polish brains at $25 per lb
astonished, he asks the butcher why the high price for the polish brains.
the butcher replies: 'are you kidding? do you know how many polocks we had to kill to get a pound of brains?'
Blacks also have an incredibly high abortion rate.
Apparently the only person who got it was the person I originally prefaced the comment to. Calm down and stop taking yourself so seriously.
Crazy people have babies every day. It is heartbreaking, of course, but that is a choice we have here in the States. The State has to work long and hard to take away a child. Do I think the bar is misapplied at times? You bet.
But as a conservative, I would never advocate government licensing of parents or more government intrustion into family life.
The biological mom was 11 when she had her first child. A couple years later she had another. Both were removed from her care. Then a couple years later she had her third child, who was removed from her care, then she had her last child, which was removed at birth. Our two boys are her last two kids. The biological mom is white and the fathers are Mexican and Guatemalen, so their color makes them look like they could be ours.
The adoption process will be over later this year, sometime after the biological moms parental rights are terminated(May 1). We haven't spent a dime for the process through the county. They made us attend parenting and CPR classes, but that was it. Since we're foster parents until the process is over, we get money every month for each boy. We're told the money will continue until the boys are 18 years old (college fund!). They also have medicare until they're 18, so we don't have to worry about insurance for the boys.
It's been a long and sometimes difficult process, but well worth the wait. We don't feel like we're doing anything special - we wanted kids but couldn't have our own, so we adopted.
You are right, life is terrificly unfair. Thank goodness that you are able to see past it and realize that a government solution is not the answer.
I will get you back one of these days. < /just kidding...?> :-)
I personally agree with this attitude. We have two children of our own, but can't have any more. We would love to adopt children (any color...it wouldn't matter). I think it might be something we will look into in the future, as we have talked about it before. I feel more children would be abopted, if it wasn't so dang expensive. There are a lot of families, like us, who would love to take children into their home. But they (we) live pay check to pay check, stashing away what they can for retirement. Not every couple who has the potential to be a great parent to a child, is wealthy or upper-middle class.
My sister gave her baby to close friends of ours. It was an open aboption and has worked out well. It cost them over $20,000, without going through an agency, etc. I'm assuming the cost was for legal fees.
Are you going through social services? We've been thinking about this too.
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