But from the beginning, I also rejected the certitude of those demanding that Eli n be sent back to Cuba. Finally, once the father did not come for his son for months, and Eli n began bonding with relatives in Miami, especially with a surrogate mother, shipping this boy to his absentee father in a country he could never return from seemed less and less morally justified. While few liberals actually praise communism, ever since the Vietnam War, liberals have fought anti-communism with much greater zeal than they have fought communism. There were two major cold wars. The other reason for liberals' passion in this matter is less obvious but no less deep.
Contemporary liberalism tends to attach enormous importance to blood ties.
This is illustrated by the attitude of virtually every liberal organization toward adoption, an institution that is living proof that love and values are infinitely more important than blood. In December 1999, ABC television's John Stossel devoted his weekly special to the difficulties child welfare professionals place in the way of couples wishing to adopt children. The next day on my radio show he told me that his own producer had refused to produce that show. Compounding liberals' preoccupation with blood is their preoccupation with race. Liberalism's commitment to blood ties is so deep that liberals in child welfare work have led the movement to return children to abusive biological parents and have so strongly opposed interracial adoption that it can fairly be said that many social workers actually prefer a child to have no parents than parents of a different race.