Our Threatened Freedom

Are We Suffering From a New Bigotry

Professor: Dr. R.J. Rushdoony

Subject: Political Studies

Lesson: 146-169

Genre: Conversation

Track: 146

Dictation Name: Vol. L - Part 03 - Are We Suffering From a New Bigotry

Location/Venue: Unknown

Year: 1980’s – 1990’s

[Dr. Rushdoony] Are we suffering from a new bigotry? This is R.J. Rushdoony with a report on our threatened freedom.

A case in a southern California court has recently attracted a little attention far outside the borders of Los Angeles and Orange counties. A destitute couple in April 1982 placed their natural child, a girl, with county chosen foster parents in Pomona. The mother of the child was sick, and she was talked into allowing the child to be given to foster parents, as were two other children. The child was placed in a home on April 22nd, there was no visitation in that home by a social welfare worker. The girl, 21 months old, was sodomized and battered by the foster father, and died because of this sexual abuse on October 4, 1982.

Before going any further, it is necessary to say that there are very many fine foster parents. I have encountered more than a few of them. Moreover, welfare workers are commonly overloaded with casework, and visitation sometimes gets neglected. What concerns me is something more. As I traveled back and forth across this country, I am encountering a serious problem. More than a few areas are rejecting very superior couples who are eager to be foster parents, for a very ugly reason, because the hopeful foster parents to be are devout Christians. This does not appear on the records, the statement is made orally, usually to the foster mother to be. What we are seeing is a bigotry on the part of humanist case workers against a responsible and moral element in our communities, the evangelical Christian.

Is it any wonder then that we have the sickening disasters from time to time such as befell little Monique Anne in Pomona? What can we say for a country which rejects devout and godly people as foster parents? I am not saying that this is a rule across the country, but I am saying that it is happening, and it is an ugly sign of the times

Bigotry has many faces, and this is one of them.

This has been R.J. Rushdoony with a report on our threatened freedom.