They are being monitored by the US Embassy,so things are being handled. The Southern Baptist leaders want the White House AKA President Obama to interfer. HELLO! It is up to the Haitian government to handle the case ….they are accused on Haitian soil. Actually, just from reading the stories, the leader is the one who got the other 9 into this mess. Perhaps she should be held, and the other 9 allowed to leave the country. What I find interesting in Haiti, people are guilty until found innocent. And folks complain about our judicial system! Personally, I think President Obama should stay out of it.

Anderson Cooper CNN 360 is gay and have a Left Wing agenda on the 10 American/Cristian Missionaries in a Haitian Prison? Is your donations to a Haiti Charity fund keeping them in a Haitian Prison? Who is going to pay for the upkeep of these Hostages? The Obama White House Haiti Fund, Bill Clinton Haiti Foundation, The American Tax payer, are any other charity you send money too help Haiti? These American/Christian is facing prison in the poorest country in our hemisphere.

Google: Anderson Cooper
Google: Benjamin Maisani
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OK folks, let’s think a bit. Instead of getting our diapers in a wad because Christians are behind bars, lets ask ourselves if these particular Christians belong behind bars.
There is reason to suspect that these particular Christians were removing children from their native country without obtaining any written authorization from their native country whatsoever.
Doesn’t that mean that they belong behind bars, at least until they are exonerated? Is it really “persecution” to expect these Christians to cooperate with authorities while important questions about their conduct are answered satisfactorily?
Is contempt for the Haitian government the root cause of the apparent lawlessness of these missionaries? If so, I think American Christians need to tone down our rhetoric. Perhaps we bear some responsibility for this contempt. Even if we aren’t, we must recognize that our open expressions of contempt are a hindrance to diplomacy.
How is the Haitian government supposed to react to an American presumption that we can simply bully and bribe our citizens out of their custody? If the Haitian government permits us to muscle our way through their coarts, wouldn’t that confirm our contemptuous view of them is well founded?
The shear vanity displayed by these ten prisoners, as they attempt to ape the mannerisms of biblical martyrs, must thoroughly irk their custodians. I find it truly amazing that their outlandish pretensions have not provoked abuse. Personally, I think we should get down on our knees and give thanks for the remarkable restraint their guards have shown. If there are Christian martyrs involved in this case, then those martyrs are the Hatian authorities who have graciously endured the over-the-top melodramatics presented by these 10 Americans.
The truth about the behavior of Laura Silsby and her followers will come out. All we have to do is wait on the truth. If the truth sets some or all of these 10 American Baptists free, give thanks. If the truth condemns some or all of these 10 American Baptists to a Haitian prison, give thanks. Truth is God’s weapon. Let’s not protest against His work.

Millions have lost everything in the quake – homes, food, jobs! For the next 12 months, the World Food Programme says 2 million people will need critical food assistance! If you want to help and learn more about the crisis response, go to: “>http://wfp.org/crisis/haiti> or you can text FRIENDS to 90999 to make a $5 donation.

i think “your name” is right — they’re posing as martyrs, and making it quite easy for the southern baptist convention to get all up in arms over the “prosecution” of christians.
but a) they were breaking the law, and b) have we any reason to think that they’re being tortured or ill-treated? there’s no reason to think that we have to extradite them in order to maintain their safety, am i right?
i’m a christian, but i still say that these people need to take responsibility for their actions – even if their intentions were pure, they have to see how their actions looked to the haitian government. instead of turning it into a christian-martyrdom type situation, they need to just quietly accept the consequences.
it’s not christian martyrdom if you’re being held in jail for a justified reason.

Ray & Jon,
What the hell difference does it make to anyone IF Anderson Cooper is gay or not?
The Christians are in prison because they really screwed up by not following the Haitian rules on adoption etc. What that has to do with AC is…..NOTHING!

PS, Ray and Jon think A. Cooper is Gay and gives a left-agenda in his news, actually Ray and Jon sound straight and have a right-agenda going, or could also be the same poster. I noticed A.C. is having a special tonight on TV, “Stealing Haiti”. Maybe this attack on A. is prompted by this. Anderson is one of the best newsman in America.

IMO, Henrietta, “Jon or Ray” /Jon and Ray, need(s) to find somewhere else to slander someone. This is not the site for their (his) personal prejudices.

These types of relief efforts should be left to professionals. Compassion, Red Cross are good as is World Vision. My group on the other hand has been to and are in many countries in caring capacities and we are in Haiti providing water purification stations.

Good for your group, cknuck….helpful as usual…does it have a name?

Jon & Ray-
Are you jealous that Anderson has a boyfriend?
What does the fact that they are a couple (seemingly well suited at that) have to do with Haiti and the Baptist missionaries accused of attempting to kidnap children?
Peace!

These people are Americans,this administration should look out for them and make the effort public. We taxpayers are paying for the haitian government’s restructuring so do the right thing for the missionaries who also were taxpayers. DO THIS PRONTO.

YN, those Americans messed up…even Americans, no matter what “faith” they profess, need to follow the rules of the country they are in. Apparently they didn’t do that…or they wouldn’t be sitting in a Haitian jail right now. Being American doesn’t give them special rights, or being Christians doesn’t give them special rights to remove children out of a country…not even orphans. As it turns out, some weren’t orphans.
JohnQ, is Anderson a homosexual? Just wondered. The fellows above seem to think that is important to bring out…and disapprove of apparently. They really need to get a life.

pagansister-
Yes, Anderson Cooper is gay. He and Benjamin Maisani are a couple.
He is sort of like the judge in the California Prop 8 case. Everyone (read that as well most gays) know that they are both gay…but, neither have come out publicly. But then many/most straight newscasters and judge have not publicly come out as straight.
Peace!

Thanks for answering my question, JohnQ. I have always admired Anderson Cooper, and this “revelation” certainly hasn’t changed my mind about him! It is sad that some men and women (perhaps more those in the public eye?) are still cautious about coming out.

While some might assume these Americans are guilty, they also might be innocent. While some American might assume that, the other orphanages were Christian run they might have been run buy Haiti’s government. We live in a country were all a mother of a newborn child has to do to give it up is give it to the local police or fire department. I would venture to say that most Haitians cannot even read or write. There was consent by the parents with hope of a better life. Is it too much too also assume they may have been set up. God knows we have enough crooked officials. It was that long ago that a girl from Alabama vanished from the same area. That same justice system let her adductor go free. I assume this might be the real motive. So lets all be cowards and look the other way again.

Millions have lost everything in the quake – homes, food, jobs! For the next 12 months, the World Food Programme says 2 million people will need critical food assistance! If you want to help and learn more about the crisis response, go to: “>http://wfp.org/crisis/haiti> or you can text FRIENDS to 90999 to make a $5 donation.

Watch out for the Haitian hustle only give to entities you know.

Good advice, cknuck.

There has been so much focus on this incident with the Baptist Missionaries taking children out of the Haiti. It appears that this was really just a misunderstanding. Yet very little interest has been shown for the Christian Missionaries who made the ultimate sacrifice in serving the Haitian people.
On January 12 a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake struck the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, bringing widespread death and destruction to the western hemisphere’s poorest nation. The earthquake killed at least 200,000 people, injured at least 300,000 others, leveled at least 250,000 residencies, and destroyed or severely damaged at least 30,000 commercial structures. It was Haiti’s largest and most destructive earthquake in more than 200 years.
Beyond the statistics, the human suffering is amongst the most heartbreaking the world has seen in some time – the break-up of families, the orphaned children, the lack of food and water, the emotional and physical pain, the fight for daily survival.
This tragedy, however, has born witness to the generosity of Americans once again and others throughout the world who have given of themselves financially – donating roughly $528 million as of late January. But long before the earthquake put Haiti on the world radar screen, it stood out for its dismal standard of living. For generations Christian missionaries have come to do what they could. They were there on January 12 before the bottom fell out. A few of them even made the ultimate sacrifice. We wanted to honor these individuals here and welcome your additions and suggestions if we have missed anyone.
Jeffrey J. Rodman, President and CEO of Here-4-You Christian Grant Consulting is featuring the stories of devotion and achievement which inspire all of us on the Christian Grant Writing company’s website at https://npfunds.com/blog/?p=380.

The Obama administration is deliberately refusing to help these people, in part because they are christians! This is typical of the kind of thing that happens in Democratic administrations. You notice that the media has gone silent about them but they have also gone silent about the suffering of the people in Haiti. The reason is the American people people aren’t interested in hearing about their suffering or helping them as long as they are abusing our people. It is incredible that these two bit dictators have the guts to waste time on energy torturing these people when there own people are suffering. Millions of dollars that would have gone to Haiti aren’t going because of this issue. CNN is the only network even talking about the whole thing. No network is even talking about the missionaries because they can’t talk about them without discussing the fact that Obama and Hillary Clinton are doing absolutely nothing to help. It almost looks like a vendetta.