Child Abuse in the Name of Wokeness; Mia Cathell of Townhall has been doing yeoman’s work documenting a very disturbing case out of Atlanta, Georgia. Her four-part series can be found here, here, here, and here. I recommend reading it in its entirety – but not too soon after eating. The case concerns a gay married couple, who were arrested for abusing their two adopted boys.
I confess that I’ve been avoiding this story, because I find it so disturbing. My sister and I are both adopted. I get emotional just thinking about the horrors suffered by these boys who were less fortunate than us. But what the story says about our culture and society is too important to ignore.
The arrested men are Zachary Jacoby Zulock and his spouse, William Dale Zulock Jr. The men are in their 30s, live in a large suburban house, and are active in the Pride and BLM movements. I’ll give you one guess which political party they support. Hint: It’s the party of moral relativism.
They are accused of unspeakable acts against their two adopted boys – ages 6 and 8 at the time of the offenses. The charges include child pornography, child rape, and pimping the boys out to other pedophiles in the greater Atlanta area. I won’t go into details about the abuse, because it’s not necessary for the point I want to make.
According to Cathell’s report, officials in Georgia expedited the Zulock adoption – even to the point of minimizing their background check. We now know that one of the men, Zachary Jacoby Zulock, had been accused of raping a child in Oxford, Georgia in 2011. Apparently, the investigation was less than rigorous. According to the sheriff’s department.:
“The 2011 case was handled in a manner that is inconsistent with today’s current investigatory standards but the law enforcement officers in the Criminal Investigations Division at that time have since retired.”
In other words, we screwed up, but the officers have quit so we’re taking a Mulligan. But why’d they screw up? What if it wasn’t a mistake “inconsistent with current investigatory standards” at all. What if it was intentional avoidance of a rainbow flag carrying, “No H8” tee-shirt clad, mob and their Antifa enforcers. After Brett Kavanaugh’s experience following the Dobbs decision, that’s not so farfetched.
Here’s something else to make your blood boil. The state even pays a monthly stipend to the Zulocks for adopting and caring for two special-needs children. Perhaps the state should have been more specific about what “care” was expected in exchange for its subsidy of the Zulock lifestyle.
Unfortunately, the MSM is avoiding the story entirely – for obvious reasons. The LGBTQ community claims the Zulock story is an anomaly – and shouldn’t be an indictment of gay adoption in general. The Democrats are condemning the Republicans for “pouncing” on the story. To them, anything that undermines the narrative is a greater sin than the molestation of children. Think about that.
But few are talking about what the story says about the radical ideology that’s being pushed on America. Call it leftism, wokism, liberalism, socialism, or just plain foolishness. The ideology that all men are not equal is corrupt, dangerous, and victimizes our most innocent.
It’s the ideology that asserts that some people are entitled to benefits from society simply because of their genetics, social status, or lifestyle choices. It’s the ideology that people who check certain intersectionality boxes are presumed of higher moral character and are deserving of special considerations:
- Preferential hiring
- Preferential academic admission
- Preferential criminal sentencing
- Financial reparations
- Expedited adoption
Which brings me to a disturbing conclusion about where woke ideology leads. It leads to a broken society with no moral compass.
I’m not arguing for or against gay adoption. That’s a topic for another day. I’m pointing out that woke ideology has driven us to grant benefits to certain classes of people (and gays are one of those classes) because of what they are, not who they are. Hard work, honesty, and integrity are irrelevant – if one belongs to an approved race, gender, or lifestyle preference. The presumption that to be gay is to also be of good character is as wrong as it would be for heterosexuals. Unfortunately, wokeness asserts that it is unacceptable to questions the desires or motives of a protected class. Therefore, for certain people, the government makes allowances – as it did in the Zulock case. The case is a frightening illustration of how dangerous it is to bend the rules to fit a narrative.
When we bend the rules, the innocent suffers. When a job or college admission is given to someone because of their race – it’s denied to someone else who may have worked harder or longer. When “me too” demands that women be presumed honest, the truth may remain undiscovered. When we refuse to incarcerate a criminal because too many of their intersectionality group are disparately impacted, they in turn prey on the defenseless. When we expedite an adoption to support a narrative that an LGBTQ lifestyle is wholesome and loving, children become commodities for exploitation.
The atrocity of the Zulock case is not an indictment of a gay lifestyle. It’s an indictment of woke politics – the politics that enabled the sexual enslavement of two young children. It’s the ideology that declared it politically incorrect to question the motives, character, or competence of protected class members.
Woke ideology is a perversion because it does not promote equal treatment under the law. It demands preferential treatment for certain designated categories of people. A mob that loots a department store are not criminals – if they’re doing it in the name of Black Lives Matter. Religious observance in the public square is perfectly acceptable – as long as the religion is not Christianity. Public nudity is wrong – unless it’s in support of the pride movement. We must allow gay couples to adopt children without the normal rigorous checks and balances – because they are brave examples for us all to aspire to.
And that brings us to the root of the Zulock problem. They were afforded expedited adoption, not because they were good people, but because of how they identify. Why, questioning the moral character of such a couple could get a government bureaucrat cancelled – no? It’s much easier to put children at risk than to deal with hatred from the people of “coexist.”
The Left embarked on woke politics with the claim that they would correct the sins of the past – reparations for the wronged and leveling the playing field if you will. But the past is still the past and sins of the past still happened. The best we humans can do is strive to not repeat those sins in the future. The past cannot be erased or “fixed.”
Unfortunately, our ill-advised attempt to change the past has put us on a path of irrationality in which racism is corrected with racism and intolerance is countered with blind acceptance – even where not warranted. This has brought us to the place where the welfare of children is secondary to virtue signaling. Welcome to the world of woke.
This article appeared previously on American Thinker.
Author Bio: John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He has written for American Thinker, and American Free News Network. He can be followed on Facebook or reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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Well, I will argue against gay adoption, don’t worry. If there is only two male, or two female parents, or role models, the child, regardless of sex, has nothing of the experience that a mother and a father provides, even if the traditional mother and father turn out to be two alcoholic and/or otherwise terrible parents. I understand that my painting it this way gives a little room for the gay adoption to be more peaceful, but not enough to matter, because of the ideology that the two gay “parents” drag along with their parenting.
The idea that the child will get the rest of the needed life lessons from society, or the education system, public or private, is a recipe for disaster.
There have been debates about how the gay priest can be celibate and perform the Lord’s work. The ones who support this view are the gay priests, and the often too many guilt ridden communicants. Gay is a term that automatically drags along the connotation of sex, and that’s where the rubber hits the road, being found in the Bible, where it is an abomination for a man to lay with a man, and a woman to lay with a woman. What message does this give to the child who is adopted by two gay parents? The logical course that a person can get is that, if the child is not exposed to the ways of procreation and morality, learned by two heterosexual parents, the child learns the wrong lesson.
And there is always the possibility that we see a situation like the two gay males who abused their adopted child. It creates a cycle of dependency, based on the wrong teachings, which are well explained in the Bible, to never do.
Gays should not be able to adopt they only have one point of view and that’s their gay one kids won’t learn what they need to learn about life with these kinds of sick perverted people.