First, a refresher on the basics. In the Bible we're told God created two sexes -- men and women. He made them different, and vive la difference! And God told the man and the woman to be fruitful, go forth and multiply. He didn't give them any instructions about how to do that, but Walt is pretty sure in vitro fertilization was not an option. In any case, they figured out for themselves how to procreate, and now there are something like 7 billion of their descendants.
God also created three or four races -- possibly more, depending on how you define "race". He made them in different colours, so you could tell them apart. And he gave them different characteristics too. Although it's not PC to talk about such things nowadays, we all know who are the most clever ones, who are the best athletes and so on. And don't tell me strength and smarts are all nurture, nothing to do with nature! Everyone knows white men can't jump!
The miracles of modern science, and the follies of political correctness, have made it possible, even acceptable or desirable, for people to start interfering with God's plans for humanity -- the natural order of things. Mixing of the races is a fact of life, particularly in societies such as that of Brazil, where the majority of people are what we used to call "Heinz" -- "57 different varieties". Geneticists predict that in a few more generations everyone everywhere will be some shade of café-au-lait.
Homosexual liaisons, condemned in God's Holy Word, are now actually encouraged by the legalization of same-sex "marriage". It may not be God's law, but it's the law of the land. Even in the USA, where legislatures pass defence of marriage laws, those who think they know better refuse to go to court to uphold the quaint notion that marriage ought to be between a man and a woman. (Farewell, then, Eric Holder.)
Of course, if two men or two women are legally married, they are legally entitled to adopt or otherwise get a child, since the main purpose of marriage is to produce children. Right? To rule that they're disqualified from parenthood just because they can't get children in the normal way -- "the old in-and-out" -- would be discriminatory. Right? That, too, is the law of the land.
Which brings us to Jennifer Cramblett, a white lesbian from Ohio who gave birth to a mulatto baby after having her ovum fertilized in vitro with sperm from a black man, given to her by a Chicago-area sperm bank. It was all a mistake of course. Ms Cramblett says she and her lesbian partner, Amanda Zinkon, chose "donor No. 380", who is white. Instead, she alleges in a lawsuit against the sperm bank, she was sent sperm for "donor No. 330", who is, errr, black. By the time the two ladies [?? Ed.] realized the error, it was too late.
Some mistakes you just have to live with. This mistake's name is "Payton"; she's a girl.
Or, of course, you could sue. Especially if you're a citizen of the Excited States of America, the most litigious nation on earth. Sure enough, Ms Cramblett is suing the sperm bank for "wrongful birth and breach of warranty". Our resident legal beagle says that "wrongful death" actions are common enough, but "wrongful birth" is a new one on him.
Breach of warranty (contract), however, sounds like a pretty well-founded claim. Writing on MyBrownBaby.com, Denene Millner says "If you spend all that time flipping through binders of dudes, checking out their backgrounds, education, height, cuteness and whatever else women are looking for when they’re trying to decide whose sperm they’re going to squirt into their bodies to make the kid of their dreams, you should get what you paid for. Simple as that."
"What I can’t wrap my mind around, [she continues] is that Cramblett is claiming the mix-up caused 'emotional and economic losses' brought on when she was forced to birth and raise a Black kid in her virtually lily-white town, amongst her racist, intolerant white family, in her all-the-way white home. In the lawsuit, she says she loves her 'obviously mixed-race' daughter, Payton, but she 'lives each day with fears, anxieties, and uncertainty' about both her and her kid’s future....
"Really? Really?! So basically what they’re admitting here, out loud, in public, for the entirety of the world—and, eventually, their baby girl—to see is that they think they should get oodles of cash money dollar bills y’all to deal with the filthy work of raising a Black child.
"Because really, who wants to drive to the Black side of town to get this kid’s nappy hair done? Who’s trying to pack up the entire house and move somewhere around Black people so the baby can feel like she belongs? Who’s gonna even begin to check grandpa at the dinner table when he goes on his anti-Obama rants and gets all red-faced talking about how niggers are ruining the goddamn country? Who signs up for that shit?
"Cramblett didn’t. So pay her."
There's more, of course, and Walt enjoyed reading every word of it. The real lesson here, it seems to me, is that there is a price to be paid for defying the laws of God and Nature. Ms Cramblett's sad story should therefore be a cautionary tale. Before they deviate from the norm, people should think through the consequences. Being human, they probably won't, but the lesson is there to be learned.
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