Comments about ‘Utahns anxiously helping hundreds of orphans’

The greatest thing that I like about Mormons is how the serve. Good job Mormons!!

This performance respecting children, their innocence and right to life, is the best we can do? Formally and Officially? Shame. We do not have access to transporting what is essential for life to them? We cannot rally private support as was done for Proposition 8? What?!

Get them over here there are plenty of families that would be willing to take them. Just get them here.

I heard on one of the articles that I recently read that Haiti will not allow adoptions to LDS homes. Is this true? If not how would someone go about the QUICKEST way to adopt to help these children.

How can people help these kids? we would love to adopt two of them.

Just ship them here...I can almost bet that they would all be adopted. If the stupid adoption processes didn't cost $30K, I bet all of them would have had homes already. Sigh...I know I could afford a few of them on a daily basis, just not the cost up front of adoption. Maybe it will take something like this for the adoption processes to be changed so that families that can afford more children can have them without having to come up with half their income beforehand!

I agree - how can we help? We would love to adopt, but we would also love to know HOW to help and WHAT to do to get these children some much-needed assistance!

Your comments are so uplifting and so helpful to the children in Haiti you must be one heck of of person to be around.

Re: Bob,

What in the world are you talking about? This is about helping suffering children and other victims of this tragic natural disaster. It's not about pointing fingers about some political agenda.

If you are adopting these children, please respect their ethnic origins.

Ensure they learn their native language. They need to be taught their Haitian (Creole) language, raised Catholic or one of the other endemic religions (NOT Mormon), and taught their history and ethnicity!

I know some of you genuinely want to help, but please do not let your naive desire blind you to the harm you may do. Do not raise them as Mormons. That is not who they were born to be.

I know others of you are deliberately preying upon these vulnerable people thinking this is an easy way to steal away these children and convert them to your Utah religion by raising them in "good LDS homes" - your ethnocentric bias blinds you! For the sake of the Haitian culture, please reconsider!

Are you interested in adopting one or more of these children and raising them to speak their own language (you could learn it yourself, or hire someone to teach French or Creole French to them), raise them in the Catholic religion or other "endemic" religions (if you are not Catholic would you be willing to take them to the Catholic Church, and enroll them in classes to teach them their religion), and teaching them their history and ethnicity (again, either learn it yourself or hire someone to come and teach it)?

Perhaps you are unable to do that, but would be willing to somehow sponsor one or more of these children so that they can stay in an orphanage in their own country but still receive adequate food, shelter and education?

There are many "good LDS homes", and many good homes that are Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and many other religious groups. If it is not acceptable to you that LDS people would raise any adopted child in their religion, would you also have the same objection to any other religious family raising them in their religion?

Re: 7:43 p.m. Get your facts before making irresponsible comments. "Preying" and "stealing away children," should be replaced with "compassion" and "nurturning."

If you dare, watch how many headsets are used in a LDS General Conference. See how many languages the Book of Mormon is published in. Note the number of people who speak two or more languages in Utah. Your hate will be overcome by love.

hope that these children will be taken care of, and those parents who are more than willing to adopt them into loving homes will be able to do so. God Bless them all...

How appropriate that the children should gather to the LDS center. Take good care of them folks.

I too wish the adoption process was not so expensive, its like kids are "for sale". I understand it takes money, but that much? We are a stable family who have the room and funds to support additional children we cannot have on our own anymore, but we could not come up with those kinds of funds up front and frankly the idea of "paying" for a child rubs me the wrong way. I would guess there are millions of families across this country who could give those children (and others in our country as well) loving homes, but simply cant pull tens of thousands of dollars out of the air to start the process.
I hope all those children find good homes with people who CAN afford the cost up front. Bless them all.

to Count Sensibilius: I'm sure you mean well and you worry for these children as much as I do; but these kids needs a family, they need love, and it doesn't matter the language that a loving family speaks or its religion or its country; it is about love. We are all part of the human family.

Why is it that our arrogance thinks that kidnapping these orphans and bring them to america is doing them a favor?

It has been reported that many of these so called orphans were sold to orphanages to sell them to waiting adoptive parents or as child slave labor. If this isn't arrogance and kidnapping then we have become a nation of selfish individuals. Giving aid doesn't mean you kidnap a person or child to give it.

Americans are always allowing their own sympathy and emotions get in the way of reality to what is really happening in the wake of this disaster. If this kind of kidnapping aid was imposed in america we would be up in arms. Our children being kidnapped and exported calling it aid has but one face, its illegal arrogance.

If any religion believes in honoring the ethnicity and the heritage of children, it is the "Mormon" faith. We are the pioneer of genealogy efforts around the world. We believe that people are connected to their ancestors and we honor that. Haitian children can have the benefits of life in the U.S. without losing a love for their own Haitian roots.

Every parent of every kid HAS a relative out there that has the same DNA in that chain, not only are the "save the planet" ones are just trying to use these kid's as a pawn, to gain more city, state, county and federal bennies, allowing their own sympathy and emotions get in the way of reality to what is really hogwash. for more tax breaks. For 200 babies, toddlers and older children, many with families in Utah hoping to adopt them, time, safety and shelter are of the essence. The children from two orphanages are gathered on the grounds of a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Not any of my comments are found to be abusive, offensive, off-topic, misrepresentative, or more than 200 words, as far as I am concerned, these kid's are illegals. Take care of American's first. They are not our problem. That's my conservative view. People kidnapping these orphans and bring them to america is not doing them a favor.

You make it a point to use "Brother" in your online identity. May I respectfully ask whose Brother you are?

If you are representing yourself as a member of the LDS church I find your comments "abusive, offensive, off-topic, misrepresentative" to the beliefs I hold sacred. My Church (LDS) is reaching out to its "brothers and sisters", members or not, in Haiti.