And within the U.S. the work is mostly being done by mothers who have lost children to adoption, speaking out against the exploitation, corruption, commodification of children in a supply and demand industry.

Russ, I wrote facts about the Christian right’s push to promote adoption. Facts that you do not dispute. Are there good Christians doing the righteous work of Jesus? Yes! One dear Christian missionary friend runs Amor del Ninos children’s home in Guatemala and totally agrees with me. Another friend is building houses, also in Guatemala because that is what he was called to do.

Fools use broad brushes and make generalizations about all people of one faith as if within ANY faith all people thought or acted the same way. I made no such generalizations. I have written here of fundamentalists and the pro-adoption programs they have initiated. I have quoted accurately and provided references.

Sadly, the fact is that adoption is very much on their agenda and is being preached to the masses, many of whom do not understand the realities and believe that adoption always rescues “unwanted” “orphans.” That too is too believe far too simple a broad brush generalization!

before anyone considers adopting or supporting other in that pursuit they need to become educated and separate the dogma and rhetoric being perpetrated by the profiteers of adoption from the truth of those sincerely trying to help mothers and their children. Throw out the money lenders and the baby sellers who speak with forked tongues and pretend to be helping children when all they are helping is their own bottom line.

Become educated about the truth of child trafficking. It is shocking! Read the works of David Smolin, another good Christian man and colleague of mine who tried to do a good, kind and caring thing through adoption only to find himself and his wife the recipients of two girls stolen form their mother in India. They are not alone. Google Julia Rollings’ adoption story. Good Christian people are being duped, sir!

So please, before you just disregard what I have written because it is shocking news to you – and horrible truths you do not wish to believe – please research the facts for yourself.

I would point to both Islamic and Christian liberation theologies as being trends that agree withwhat I is stated here and advocate the kind of grassroots change that would obviate adoption as we currently know it. But like all resistance movements, they are targeted for destruction by those holding power, of all religions.

The work in Guatemala and Korea to end adoption is being led by adoptees like myself who have returned to their lands of birth, working locally with advocates for grassroots change. We are hugely outnumbered by advocacy groups who are given the shelter of complete support by dominant legal, social, medical, cultural, and media modes of control.

To point out this controlling structure, as this article does, is half of this human rights battle. And you can choose which side you fall on.

You seem to have an agenda and only choose information that supports your narrow viewpoint. Where is your reporting on the Christian ministries growing in many cities to support foster parents and foster-to-adopt programs? How about some reporting on state and local groups turning to churches for support because other social service NGO’s are shutting down? Why don’t you mention the fact that donations to child-relief charities in the US are way down in 2009?

On the international front, your research is disappointingly narrow as well. Where are your notes on how US adoption from Guatemala was shut down because of irregularities in the adoptions? Where is your reporting on recent work by China and Korea to crack down on child trafficking including executing a former adoption official? You claim that the “industry” is “unregulated” but most international adoptions into the US since July 2009 follow the rules of the Hague Convention, which strictly documents and regulates every step of the process.

Finally, you missed an obvious point. Where is the commentary about how few Christian children continue in the faith after high school? Research within Christian groups shows that ministering to middle-school aged and high-school aged children is what is most lacking today in keeping people in the faith. If Christians were really “adopting Christian soldiers” as you say, they would be focusing on adopting older children. You claim that they are focusing on adopting infants to grow their numbers which, given the facts, does not make sense.

If your agenda was to make Christians look dangerous because they may not have all the facts in their desire to help children, then you did a great job. If your goal was to speak in defense of the children, I think you failed.

Hmmmm. Might I suggest this isn’t quite as exclusive as is proclaimed?

The former people, Buddhists and Hindus who lived for thousands of years in what are now Islamic lands such as Afghanistan and Iran are certainly aware of the Qur’an and its enlightened servants so eager to convert them.
These (formerly) indigenous peoples were indeed liberated. Liberated of their land, religion and in millions of cases, their lives.

Do, or will Muslims ever acknowledge this without hysterically interjecting the very same excuses, justifications and even denials made by the Christians and Jews?

The “idolotors”/”pagans” seem to be a sticking point for all three of the extended family desert religions and their spiritually liberating theologies.

It thus becomes disturbing the lengths to which current interpreters of the Bible twist the language and the stories to suit their purposes, similar to its use to justify slavery, and the divine right of kings previously. The Qur’an becomes rather enlightening in this regard, given its outright invocation that orphans, representing the most vulnerable members of society, be taken care of; that they remain within their community; that their filiation remain intact. The stories of the prophets Joseph and Moses (pbut) reveal this in terms of how their re-unification with their birth families is a central focus of both stories. Furthermore, all invocations concerning the “fatherless” in the Bible also contain within the same passages a call to care for widows and others who are unable to sustain themselves. Would not a logical conclusion of this be that the expectant mother be afforded this same zealous care and protection? That the orphan should be singled out from a given community, both literally in terms of the Bible and on the ground, only reveals the moral bankruptcy of putative Christians whose primary concern is, in fact, their own nuclear family as well as the conversion of the heathen multitudes.

This is nowhere more clear than here in Lebanon, where baby trafficking from the south and Palestine is starting to come to light. By my observations into paperwork in my orphanage, I can safely say that a full 40 to 50 percent of infants circulating through my orphanage were from Muslim families. Furthermore, statements made by those working there lead me to believe that the disdain for the religion of these children and their families is a prime motivator in their being targeted for adoption/conversion. This brings us back to the originating efforts of those such as Pearl S. Buck who see the world through this particularly noisome lens of colonialism, conversion, oppression, and non-relativism. Given that this same Anglo-Saxon culture has done nothing to alleviate poverty, racism, classism, and mono-culturalism on the home front, why should anyone believe that they truly desire to improve conditions elsewhere in the world?

What kind of sick mentality these people have? First they fund and support the destruction of a peaceful country, create hundreds of thousand of orphans in Asia, Middle East and Africa – and they pay for the adoption of some of those orphans to collect more sheep for the next slaughter of innocents in the name of religion.

I myself have sponsored five Bosnian Muslim children made orphans by the Christian Serbs and Croats.

Religious hatred in Israel
http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/prophecy-proselytizing-and-profit-adopting-christian-soldiers/