Haitian Criminals Roam Streets, While Christian Missionaries are Jailed
WASHINGTON --- The Christian Defense Coalition calls for the Obama Administration to treat the American missionaries jailed in Haiti with the same commitment they are treating the three American hikers jailed in Iran.
With respect to the jailed hikers in Iran, Secretary of State Clinton has stated;
"As we have said repeatedly, we call on Iran to release all of the American citizens that they have currently detained. We believe they're being unjustly detained and that they should be released without further delay."
The hikers are being held on espionage charges.
With respect to the ten American missionaries being held, Secretary of Clinton has stated,
"Obviously, this is a matter for the Haitian judicial system. We're going to continue to provide support as we do in every instance like this to American citizens who have been charged and hope that this matter can be resolved in an expeditious way, but it is something that a sovereign nation is pursuing based on the evidence that it presented when the charges were announced."
Why the double standard toward the Christian missionaries?
Why not treat them the same as the hikers in Iran and demand their immediate release?
It is clear that the Obama Administration is not applying the same standard to the missionaries in Haiti as they are to those jailed in Iran.
The same rule should be applied to both situations. That is, the call for the missionaries immediate release without any more delays.
These Christian missionaries should not be treated as second class citizens by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton.
Rev. Patrick Mahoney along with Rev. Rob Scheck met this week with Haitian Ambassador Joseph in an attempt to secure their release.
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This so infortunate incident has many red flags all around. A good example as to why Jesus said we need to be innocent as doves but shrewd as snakes, because He send us like sheep among wolves. (Mt. 10:16)
A reminder also that our sending is to witness, proclaim and preach the Gospel, and not just to merely serve the tables. You/we just can't have one without the other.
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I am a Christian, holding a priesthood office, and must disagree with your entire premise. What these missionaries did was wrong on many levels. While their intentions were good, they carried out their plan very poorly and broke many laws. Would your attitude be different if this happened in America?
I am all for attempting to provide a better life for these children , but trying to wisk them out of the country without any accounting, without double and triple checking for other relatives and without following the law of the country they are in is, as they have been charged, kidnapping . Attempting to midigate their actions just because they are Christians is repugnant and shameful.
This is not the actions of someone who professes to follow Jesus Christ.
Indeed! The laws regarding the transport of children across international borders are strict out of necessity. It was reckless for this group to think that they could just walk in and ignore the laws that were created to protect children from predation.
Wow, Book and I agreeing about something is scary. Hopefully, I am converting him rather than the other way around. ;)
I wonder, while many of us here disagree on many many things, rational thought is usually on high order here, is there anyone here among the 'active' participants that would disagree with us here?
I'm of the mind that most here would agree that these people broke very important laws and the comparison to the Iranian situation is so wrong as to go nowhere in the minds of my compadres here.
On this one, I think conversions are for another day, my friend.