Comments on: American Missionaries Acting Badly? https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/ Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:21:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Dunc https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513604 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:21:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513604 Bonus stupidity from last night’s BBC news report on the matter: “These don’t seem to be criminals, they’re religious zealots.” Like the two are mutually exclusive…

]]> By: Brian X https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513603 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:36:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513603 Sailor:

Haiti is a disaster area, but not an anarchy. As screwed up as the government may be, they still have laws to be followed.

]]> By: sailor https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513602 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:09:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513602 Considering the tragedy, giving your kid to a visiting American who will take it back the USA, feed and educated it (however religiously) is probably an excellent evolutionary strategy. Also saves the offspring the later risk of sinking in an over laden leaky boat.

]]> By: Bob Calder https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513601 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:41:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513601 Proper licensing in the country is a must. Otherwise you have a criminal act.

One of my colleagues spent the larger part of a year making sure the adoption company he works with follows all proper laws and regulations in every jurisdiction in which they operate. Each state in the U.S. is slightly different, not to mention the countries they work in. It wasn’t always easy to determine just how they needed to comply with certain rules.

It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if these ladies are put *under* the jail rather than in it. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the adults in a country are protective of the children they are supposed to care for.

The paternalistic tone of defense because these ladies are Christain smacks of the 18th century. Haiti is a poor country, not a primitive one.

]]> By: Greg Peterson https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513600 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:29:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513600 One set of details has been made available by the newspaper the Idaho Statesman (http://www.idahostatesman.com/273/story/1067267.html?storylink=omni_popular), which portrays one of the missionaries as a scofflaw and a kook. Not that we should prejudge on that basis alone. Just saying.

]]> By: afarensis, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513599 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:27:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/04/american-missionaries-acting-b/#comment-513599 30 or more kinds? So each kid was a separate baramin, damn taxonomic splitters.

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