It’s obviously sad for the children and the parents. Certainly what they are doing has some very serious moral and legal problems; however, that doesn’t lesson the pain they feel. For those kids, it’s the only life they’ve ever known. Now must be a very confusing time for them.
What concerns me is how easily government can inject itself into this kind of situation. No doubt this was an extreme case. But what if in our decline into moral relativism and our distancing of making laws with a Christian mindset, the government suddenly decided that certain Catholic religious orders were not to their liking? This is an extreme what if…but what if one day some lawmaker got traction with a movement to declare the teaching of the Eucharist as the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ as fraud and that any church that practiced the mass was guilty of breaking the law?
I suppose my question is at what point does the secular government get to dictate religious order?