Caboose on the Euro Train

Stand to Reason has a heartbreaking post about government intrusion that should have everyone alarmed.  Social Services in the U.K. has ripped a 5-year old boy and his 4-year old sister from the care of their grandparents under the force of government to give them (through adoption) to a homosexual couple.  The grandparents were deemed "too old" to care for the children.  The grandparents are aged 59 and 46!

Once taken from the grandparents and placed in foster care, a two-year court battle ensued that left the grandparents without the means to continue the fight.  With no more money, they reluctantly relinquished their rights on the condition that "the children were found a 'loving mother and father.'"

Social Services then decided to place the kids in a homosexual household even though heterosexual couples had wanted to adopt the children.  The people on the side of same-sex marriage ask why it matters to us.  Let this serve as a tragic example of why it matters.  A government that can do these sorts of things:

 

• social engineering at the expense of children 
• in the name of "tolerance" 
• while breaking the bank of its citizens

is something to fear and the U.S. has been the caboose on the same train, only a decade or so behind.  So when an official of the government (read 'new president') says it's "not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works" everyone ought to cringe for only a proponent of big government would say such a thing.