Thank you so much, Mr. Cassidy, for this post. My oldest brother is Down, born in a time when many folks thought it was a hereditary "disorder." Folks would counsel my parents to perhaps avoid having other children. Thank God my parents found my brother "beautiful" and acknowledged that God does indeed "not make mistakes." He is the best of the us, an angel without an evil thought in his being. And just like ALL of us are or will be at some point, he is vulnerable and dependent on the good will and love of others. Our society and civilization is greatly diminished when we fail to take care of the weakest or most vulnerable members; or worse, when people work so aggressively to eliminate those human beings that do not "measure up" to some arbitrary quality of life standard. Unlike God, man does make mistakes.
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Thank you so much, Mr. Cassidy, for this post. My oldest brother is Down, born in a time when many folks thought it was a hereditary "disorder." Folks would counsel my parents to perhaps avoid having other children. Thank God my parents found my brother "beautiful" and acknowledged that God does indeed "not make mistakes." He is the best of the us, an angel without an evil thought in his being. And just like ALL of us are or will be at some point, he is vulnerable and dependent on the good will and love of others. Our society and civilization is greatly diminished when we fail to take care of the weakest or most vulnerable members; or worse, when people work so aggressively to eliminate those human beings that do not "measure up" to some arbitrary quality of life standard. Unlike God, man does make mistakes.
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