The above is a link to a story posted last night on CNN.com. Ten Americans working for an Idaho based charity loaded up a bus of Haitian children they presumed to be orphans and tried to drive them across the border to their facility in the Dominican Republic. They insist they were trying to provide shelter for these children. That's very admirable. The problem? They didn't get the proper paperwork and now are being investigated as kidnappers. It was not properly ascertained that the children were truly orphans and they did not go through the channels for exit visas or whatever they use in Haiti to get the children out.
The article quotes them as insisting they had good intentions. Well, we all know the old adage about the road to hell. I admire their commitment to their cause, I admire their desire to help. What I do not admire is their apparent disregard for authority because they were working under "God's" purposes. I hope other groups will take note that even though Haiti was ravaged by earthquake, they still care for their people. I just had to laugh when I read this quote though:
"God is our provider and God gives us strength and comfort," said one group member. "We have our Bibles and we are OK."
Your Bible won't save you when you refuse to respect the laws of the land you're in. Even Jesus recognized that when he said to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
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