The news is making them out to be psychos. Religious, home-schooling, anti-medicine, psychos. I take offense to that.
Honestly, this is the part that really disturbs me.
These types of cases happen from time to time, and it never fails that the media will portray the parents as criminals and nutcases. And that, to me, is very unfortunate. Aside from whether or not they should've taken this child to the doctor, we should still consider the possibility that these parents heard directly from the Lord, and that this story played out exactly how God intended for it to play out.
No, I'm not saying the parents were right. No, I'm not saying they should, or should not, go to jail.
What I AM saying is that God DOES still speak to His people, and that the media loves to make Christians who hear from God, or stand on the Word of God look like a bunch of idiots. And that sucks. We had a case here in Georgia last year of some parents who killed their child while trying to cast a demon out of him. The media did an excellent job of making them look like nuts who believed in "witches, goblins, ghosts, and demons," after the parents made reference to the power of the Holy Ghost to deliver this boy from the demons afflicting him.
Then, people start talking about them being not-guilty by reason of insanity and all that. These folks aren't insane, they just believe in the healing power of the Holy Ghost.
For the record, I've never relied on my faith alone to heal my child or myself (or my dog, for that matter). If my child is sick, she's going to the doctor, and that's the end of that. But, I don't think we should be so hard on someone who has a different kind of faith and stands on it.
