IIRC, the official narrative is that Gaetz was in a relationship with a female Cuban refugee who also had a 14 year-old brother. Gaetz and the woman eventually broke up, but the kid stayed with Gaetz.
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Probably a church thing. Many churches, in the southeast at least, push adoptions on young couples and sometimes even single men (in the case that the child is a male). This is often the case when they feel like the young child is a Christian and maybe in need, or perhaps when the men went on a mission trip or somesuch, to help a foreign orphanage.
It does get strange, but definitely not the first time I've seen this garbage. The preachers make a big deal of it, and speak highly of the men / couples that adopt these foreign kids and bring them here to the US. The preachers feel like this is the "lord's work" and really play it up.
While I understand that many here are Christians, and that's cool and all, but I've seen too much of the realities of preachers, their families and their impact to support anything around them. Some of the best people I've known are Christians, but preachers creep me out more often than not.
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Its a boomer faux-Christian zionist thing, I would assume. Theyre adopting foreigners to be seen as virtuous, when in reality if they were actually virtuous, they would adopt within their community. The boomers and goyest gen are complete Pharisees.
I hope this fad dies out with the boomers as well. I say that, but it seems like modern preachers may even be worse, given that many of them now allow for queers, female preachers and nigger music during sermons.
You're right though. I don't remember my church ever doing a single large-scale thing in our community. They were always helping build a school in the Ukraine or wells in Africa or somesuch. All they did locally was pray at the nursing homes and try to get the old folks to write something for the church in their wills. Not a great example, but all too common.
It does get strange, but definitely not the first time I've seen this garbage. The preachers make a big deal of it, and speak highly of the men / couples that adopt these foreign kids and bring them here to the US. The preachers feel like this is the "lord's work" and really play it up.
While I understand that many here are Christians, and that's cool and all, but I've seen too much of the realities of preachers, their families and their impact to support anything around them. Some of the best people I've known are Christians, but preachers creep me out more often than not.
You're right though. I don't remember my church ever doing a single large-scale thing in our community. They were always helping build a school in the Ukraine or wells in Africa or somesuch. All they did locally was pray at the nursing homes and try to get the old folks to write something for the church in their wills. Not a great example, but all too common.