JISHOU, HUNAN — I haven’t paid too much attention to the Fathima Rifqa Bary case, but today I found her appearance on a conference call released to the Internet really disturbing.
Bary, now 17, ran away from her Columbus, Ohio, home at age 16. She says she had found Jesus, and feared her Muslim family would kill her once they discovered her Christian faith. She ended up in Orlando, Florida, drawn to a church there through a Facebook page.
She is in foster care in Florida while the courts decide on what to do with her, since she is still a minor. There are no questions about her safety if she is sent back home, but some questions about the involvement of the Global Revolution Church and its pastor, Blake Lorenz, and his wife, Beverley in Bary’s coming to Orlando.
A few days ago, Bary, who is supposedly in state custody, joined in a conference call with Shirley Dobson, wife of James Dobson of Focus on the Family fame, and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. The Dobsons and Perkins are well known conservative Christian figures. The conference call host begins by welcoming his special guest, Bary, who then relates in a fairly matter-of-fact way how she prayed to God for guidance, and ended up learning how to pray in English to God and Jesus.
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