After the medial mediated interest in the kidnapped children in Haiti subsided slowly, there are now News : The counsel for the Baptist group from the U.S., the Haitian parents their children on the pretext abluchste, they to be educated in boarding schools in the Dominican Republic, has been arrested. Jorge Torres Puello is wanted by the Salvadoran authorities against trafficking. El Salvador and the United States has made extradition requests .*
is in the hands of the Haitian judiciary, now only a member of the group, her boss Laura Silsby. Eight of the ten U.S. Amerikaner_innen could have come back some time ago in the United States. On 8 March also Silsbys Assistant Charisa Coulter has been released .
Fundi Watch Blog takes this opportunity to put together some background information. It involves primarily the religious background and theology, which shaped the religious Kinderhändler_innen, but also about the events in Haiti.
U.S. Amerikaner_innen belong to some of the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian in the state of Idaho. The theology this church is based on a literalist biblical hermeneutics and an extremely heteronormativem people and family picture can be found in their creed :
"The gift of gender is ... part of the goodness of God's creation."
"Christians should oppose all forms of sexual immorality ..., including ... homosexuality."
is carefully defines the role that women and men (more gender do not occur) are met:
"... A husband has the God-given responsibility to Provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband And Thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation. "
If I, Anubis, I must at this point allow a personal and political note: Kill your gender, Baptist Then it's better for you in any case also it you definitely need no longer rack their brains as to why women have to submit to! because (!) they have equal rights ...
The Official Pastor is allowed in the Central Valley Baptist Church men reserved. And the described form of sex-economy is in the church practiced by the common reading of books such as Gary Thomas' Sacred Marriage . Thomas (his personal credo can here be seen) is the author of Evangelical guide books and runs a website and Blog on which he answered questions like:
"Gary, is it really okay to enjoy the things in the world? "
in the church prayer meetings and fund-raising in favor of the defendants are held in Haiti. Critical observations on the activities of Silsby & Co. seeks to in vain for the website of the church. A cynical (rather than a paternalistic only) connotation obtained by this remarkable silence a statement like the following, which is found also in the Creed of the Church:
"We should work To provide for the orphaned ... We should speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. "
The sanctity of all human life, of course, refers here to the refusal of the right to abortion (a must for every evangelical confession) but a X can with the understanding of holiness, that the ten Baptist_innen put Haiti on the day also known are quite different thoughts. They had claimed justament, the abducted children are orphans, which has proven to be a lie .**
The conglomeration of submissive role of women, religion and authoritarian sozialkaritativem Assistenzialismus has apparently not only a remarkable matching interests with organized human trafficking, but also leads to fatal general settings and activities. Painful experiences with this mentality shares a certain Jodie Sargent here (scroll down to the comments) with:
"To think they could just go into Haiti and take kids to another country without permission is ... If someone tried to do that say after 9:11 in the States there would have rightfully been hell to pay. I work in a developing country and get tired of self serving mostly American, and sadly too often Christian groups that think they can do what they want how they want because they are doing a good thing. "
more so to the events in Haiti. known is now that at least Silsby and Coulter had traveled before the earthquake of 12 January to Haiti. So it was not the natural disaster, the group (or at least the leaders of) their action motivated. Eight members the group to understand after arrest given that they feel betrayed by Silsby. It is, however, at least in the case of Charisa Coulter (which is not dissociated from Silsby) unlikely that she was not privy to any future plans for child abduction: After her release Coulter's father said, namely, Silsby was the best friend of his daughter.
At least one member of the group, Jim Allen , has taken its own lawyer. is supported here by Allen Liberty Legal Institute. It is to the legal branch of the libertarian-conservative Liberty Institute in Texas, which was established in 1972 under the catchy name of Free Market Foundation and says that it the "defense of freedoms and strengthening families" is dedicated. The Institute looks at Allen's release as a result of his efforts: After "three grueling weeks in jail," Allen was "finally safe at home in the United States" will tear glands pressing on the side Institute announced . About the activities of the Liberty Institute is here (scroll down) reported .
So much for the Weltretter_innen from Idaho. In addition, there is a blog entry the New York Times interesting details about the practice of some humanitarian religious groups in Haiti : Apart from business-minded Baptist_innen Haiti also has to struggle with Scientology invasions in yellow T-shirts, healed by the earthquake victims by laying on of hands and stuffed just before the operating room with food.
* Before joining the service Puellos insured, had the group of New Life Children's Refuge (NLCR) appears to be a Haitian lawyer who resigned allegedly by his mandate because he was afraid of the group cheated of his fee to be ( click! ).
** The affected children were now back to their Members passed.
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