Christian foster parents? - II (#315, Topic R)

Two of Chinese-language weekly newspapers (published onFridays) feature the Tennessee foster-parenting case (#314) as lead stories in their issues today; one covers it rather extensively, in one page and half. From reading them, I learned that the father of the 8-year-old girl was a professor in China; he came to USA in 1995, to Arizona State U as a graduate student. In 1997, he was awarded a scholarship from U of Tennessee at Memphis, and became a PhD candidate in Economics. A few months after he and his wife agreed the Caucasian couple to be their daughter's foster parents (which took place in February 1999) , he was falsely accused of sexual harassment (in September 1999) -- falsely, because he was later acquitted of all charges, though this verdict came too late to be of any assistance to the father. Almost immediately, he was asked by the university administration to suspend attending school, as a result of which he lost his student visa. Beginning a week or so after that, the Caucasian couple tried every which means to make his and his wife's visiting their daughter difficult. In October, they requested the Caucasian couple to return their daughter to them -- it was denied, on the ground that the wife was again pregnant, and that it was best to defer any action. In the meantime, he received a letter from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, threatening deportation. In January 2000, on their daughter's first birthday anniversary, the couple wanted to take her for an outing and to take some photographs. This request was denied, on the ground that the daughter was ill. This prompted the husband to say: "Enough is enough. Don't give me any further excuses." The Caucasian husband retorted: "Get out right this moment." When the father responded with "I'll never leave," the Caucasian husband dialled 911. In court, the Caucasian couple testified that the police said "Don't come back again, else you will be incarcerated" -- though the police testified, when he was called to the same court, that he merely said: "Don't come back today." In any case, the Chinese couple never visited their daughter from that day onward. In the following months, the Caucasian couple's attorney wrote letters to the husbant's employer (he was a manager in a restaurant) as well as to the INS, requesting the former to terminate his employment and the latter to deport the Chinese couple immediately. He also wrote to faculty members at the University who are of Chinese ethnicity, threatening lawsuit if they continue to lend support to the Chinese couple. One faculty member responded: "Well, we are tenured professors. We are not afraid. If you want to bring suit, do so." Of course, this empty bluff was called; nothing happened. While reading the stories, I kept asking myself: Is this the Christian love we are witnessing?