Replies to '04/12 Twin Tug of War'

They have one major reason going for them:  Florida Adoptions are closed to the public.  That's the law and the Needham's and their attorneys have used it since the very second Allison signed the adoption papers.  Florida law is that a child given up for adoption under six months old, it takes place immediately.  Then they use this Adoptions closed to the public as their defense not to go public. 

It's not a very good defense considering the names of the children, all the adults, the attorneys, and the judge has already been put out to the public but it works because, again, it's the law.

But, IMHO, they would not have good answers for the questions that would be asked.  I'm not talking about  "the law" questions because they did operate within the law, but the moral questions that would be asked of them. 

Here are some questions that would be asked:  Why didn't you give the kids back when she requested them?  Couldn't you find other kids to adopt?  Why "these kids"?

Basically, they would be put on "The Morality Trial" vice the "The Legal Trial".  I like to make a point about the difference:

Morality dictates how the laws are made, not the other way around.  Most of us know that murder and stealing are wrong not because the law says it is but because our morals made those things wrong so we made a law against it.

Here examples of morality changing laws that were made.  Women right to vote and Abolishing Slavery.

Heck, our country was founded on morality!!  The people of the colonies saw it as immoral the way England treated them, so they made a constitution to change the laws.  They believed in it so much that they gave their lives for it.

That is what so hard about this case.  Even though you are operating within the law, does it make it right?

If I was the Needhams, would I go public and be submitted to these questions?  No Way!!!!!!