Our family attends Grace Chapel in Castle Rock. Grace Chapel's congregationhas a number of families who have adopted children from foreign countries. We see families arrive at church with caucasian parents and black or asian children.
Our church family sees this as a very good, pro-life, thing. The kids usually come from a troubled third world country and our church family members have simply rescued them from a life or death of great sorrow. There is one presidential candidate that knows what this feels like.
A career naval officer named John McCain married Cindy Hensly in 1980 in Arizona. He was an "old coot" in his 40's, 18 years older than his new bride. They had three children during the next 8 years. John retired and entered the political field as a congressman and later senator from Arizona.
Cindy McCain founded the American Voluntary Medical Team in 1988 to provide health care for impoverished children in third world countries. While in Bangladesh, she found a baby girl suffering from a severe cleft palate at an orphanage operated by Mother Teresa. She decided to take the girl home to America. When she returned home to Arizona with the infant girl, she did not forewarn her husband.
"He whispered to me, 'Where is she going?' andI said, 'Well, I thought she'd come to our house,' and he said, 'I had a feeling, this is wonderful,'" McCain said. "He never flinched." They named her Bridget.
The pro-life community has consistently called for adoption as a better choice than abortion. However, few if any politicians who mouth the pro-life message actually "walk the walk". The McCains do.
Sometimes little stories like this tell you more about a person running for office than a 20 page position paper. The McCains have a lot of little stories.
Mike Robinson served with
John McCain in Vietnam during the USS Forrestal fire in 1967. Mike is an attorney in private practice in Castle Rock, CO.