video: 800 Lost Babies: The Tragedy of Tuam Mother and Baby Home

Another video related to the previous one.

I also want to add a bit here, relating back to what I wrote earlier about how it is not good to respond to sin with sin of our own.

I can agree that sexual sin is serious. I think that the biblical commands against fornication and adultery means that sexual activities should be done between married couples, a man and a woman, a husband and wife, and that to do sexual activities outside of marriage is sin.

But there are other things that are sins, too. Unjust judgments are sin; being cruel to people is sin; lying is sin.

In the biblical account of Jesus, the adulteress, and the crowd who brought her to him for judgment, we see Jesus doing something very difficult: he doesn't approve of her sexual sins, but he also doesn't go along with those who wanted to condemn her.

I hope we can agree that what was done to the women and children mentioned in this video was wrong; what I would hope for next is that we can look at how Jesus handled this incident with the woman and the crowd and ponder on how it might apply to such situations as mentioned in this video.

How should church charity workers today react when an unmarried woman comes to them for help because she'd pregnant? How can such workers show compassion for her situation without also showing approval for any sinful acts she might have done?

This is the difficult position we find ourselves in, and we can easily fall to one side or the other, because they are easy; it is easy to be condemning because there are biblical laws on our side, and it is easy to be compromising because it gets the world's approval. But we must be neither.