A fuller story about the missionaries killed in Haiti. Father-in-law's statement about the Q Club massacre.
We need to very critically review these narratives put out by the media regarding events occuring outside the West.
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A fuller story about the missionaries killed in Haiti
Now before getting into some back ground information that the Dallas Morning News omitted about the recent killings of missionaries in Haiti, I want to make a statement. Missionaries can be expelled and they should not be executed if they enrage the local population. No one deserves being robbed and murdered. Though I am not sure what exactly happened in Haiti in this instance.
These are links to two articles on the murder of these missionaries. One of them should work for you.
All links get saved to the Internet Archive.
From the Reuters article.
Missouri State Representative Ben Baker said his daughter Natalie Lloyd and son-in-law Davy Lloyd were killed while working as full-time missionaries. Davy Lloyd was the son of the organization's founders, David and Alicia Lloyd, who started it in 2000.
Missouri State Representative Ben Baker is an internationally notorious homophobe.
He wanted to jail librarians who promoted LGBT equality. The following is an article from Pink News in the United Kingdom (UK) titled, “Pro-Trump Republican wants to jail librarians who promote LGBT equality and it all sounds eerily familiar.”
Christianity Today reported:
“My heart is broken in a thousand pieces,” wrote Natalie’s father, Missouri State House Rep. Ben Baker. “I’ve never felt this kind of pain.”
This was Ben Baker’s take on the shooting at the Q Club. Evidently the shooting of some people is a tragedy and for others it is an occasion for attempted humor.
The following is the text of the above Tweet.
So as it turns out the shooter at the Q Club identifies as non-binary and pronouns are they/them. All the screeching about drag queens and LGBTQ being targeted by bigots was wrong. Annnddd now the media has gone silent.
https://x.com/BenBakerMO/status/1595416953358786562
He submitted a bill against drag shows.
https://x.com/BenBakerMO/status/1605392438385745920
Predators
You don’t have to be religious to aid the poor. Haiti already has religions. The Lloyd’s project wasn’t altruistic. It was to make religious conversions to their particular sectarian for of Protestantism by targeting the weak in a society.
https://www.missionsinhaiti.com/
They are exploiting the desperate situation of the people of Haiti to recruit the poor Haitian’s children, who are desperate and least able to defend themselves, into their movement. Also, they say that their program is to change the Haitian culture by “targeting” the children, “to be changed by the Gospel.”
They are there to “harvest” the children who in another paragraph on their webpage they are “targeting.” This is a culture war wearing the mask of humanitarianism. From the “About Us” page.
We believe the doors are still open for Haiti's children to be changed by the Gospel. Through House of Compassion and other ministries of Missions in Haiti, we are working where the fields are ripe for harvest, making a difference in the lives of hundreds of children. [Boldface added.]
Given that Haiti is Roman Catholic, exactly why did David and Alicia Lloyd assert that they were saving children from “lives apart from Christ”? Are Roman Catholic children “apart from Christ?” Was it a sectarian plan targeting the Catholic Church?
This is about developing an Evangelical force of cadres.
https://www.missionsinhaiti.com/about_us
Human Rights and the Missionary Agenda.
Though it appears that David Lloyd went to a Pentecostal university and his father-in-law is homophobic, but we really don’t know what his belief system was. Generally, globally, Evangelical groups have been homophobic groups. They often are prominent activists in anti-Gay campaigns, such as against Gay marriage in Taiwan and against the legalization of homosexuality in India. Often their supposed complaints about human rights abuses, are in reality a complaint that they aren’t in charge of the agenda of whose human rights will be abused.
It would be useful if we understood what institutions backed the Haitian mission. We can’t say with certainty that the long-term impact of these specific Evangelicals in Haiti would be to make Haiti more like Uganda or South Korea but the possibility needs to be considered. If the long term impact is different than Evangelical mission efforts elsewhere, it certain would be unique.
Is the end point of protestant Evangelical efforts be anything other than creating a society which is violent towards the LGBT? Consider South Korea.
How LGBTQ community became S. Korean conservative Christians’ archenemy.” is the title of this article.
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1005380.html
A violent Christian attack on LGBT festival in Incheon in 2015.
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20180909000245
Prayer
The thinking that prayer precludes critical thinking about safety seems to be a feature of Evangelical thinking whether it is drinking raw milk, refusing covid vaccinations, and in this case not facing the reality of a drastically worsening situation.
Questions
A lot of questions are raised by this incident. Were the missionaries disconnected from Haitian society and not see the danger or secure relationships, if only with protection money, to keep themselves secure? Given that they planned to remake Haitian society, were they seen as alien and a threat by Haitian society? Did they disparage local society and local religions?
I have no expectations of finding the answers to these questions.
Foreign Policy
Another issue is that these missionaries go to the ends of the earth and into trouble. The United States shouldn’t be dragged into troubles by the Evangelicals. The United States should have a foreign policy that is in the national interest and humanitarian, but not sectarian.
Conclusion
Finally, next time a Gay bar is shot up, Evangelicals might consider what they are saying instead of rubbish.
