"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" seems an appropriate suggestion in this whole situation.

Only trouble is, I suspect there are some people around who would take that as an invitation to start throwing stones.

I posted that a couple of thread renewals back, and I thought that second paragraph was maybe a bit strong. Now it seems it was pretty spot on.

Somehow there do seem to be a lot of stonethrowers around, rushing to judgement. If some people feel that InOBU has made some wrong assumptions, albeit on the basis of rather more information than most of us have), fair enough. People disageee about things like this. But why all the anger and the indignation?

Everyone here is agreed, I hope and believe, that child abuse is wrong, that discrimination against people because of their ethnic status is wrong, and that in anything that is done the best interests of the child should come first. The rest is details, contingent details - important, yes. But there's no disagreement on the principles, just on how best to apply them.