Philip Zodhiates Deserves Better - A Martyr Against Hedonism

Phil Zodhiates has been a friend and mentor to many conservative non-profits throughout America.  It was he who helped make Col. Allen West's election to Congress in 2010 possible, as was the case with many other conservative candidates. 

Phil saved a child from terrible abuse and gave a ride to the child's mother from Virginia to Buffalo, NY.  For this he has been ordered to report to federal prison tomorrow, with a three year sentence.  May G-d Almighty make a miracle for him and free him. 

The entire story is sickening.  It is also a prime example of how hedonism corrodes society and destroys parental rights and even the definition of what a parent is.  Phil is a true martyr and has shone a light onto the cruelty that follows when society throws away its values and even its common sense.  His suffering has brought down a light from above.  We must each ask ourselves what we can do to help him.  Indeed, organizing for  a presidential commutation seems to be the least that we can do.

Here's what happened:

Ten years ago, a mother in Vermont who had repented and gave up a relationship with a woman in order to seek a righteous life.  She took her little daughter with her.  She is the real (biological) mother.  Because her former girlfriend had formally adopted the girl as a co-parent, this former friend of the mother was given significant time and overnights.  She used this time to force the girl to bathe with her against the girl's will and tried to brainwash her.  The daughter started wetting her bed and threatening suicide. 

The family courts, instead of seeing the case for what it clearly was, a mother fighting to protect her daughter from someone who was not even a relative, saw the mother as a religious person to be held in disdain, and the LGBT former girlfriend of the mother to be an untouchable icon by virtue of her LGBT status.  Yes, bigotry is alive and well and more insane than ever.  The targets are just different.  The judge didn't even allow for an investigation into the matter.  The mother refused to comply with further visits absent significant and monitored changes and the judge announced that he would terminate her custody in favor of the mother's former girlfriend.  The serious allegations made by the daughter and the child's deterioration were of no consequence in the cruel and heartless PC mind of the judge.

The real mother, who had moved with the daughter to Virginia fled to Canada with her daughter and went from there to Central America.  In the process, she received a lift from Virginia to Buffalo, NY from Phil Zodhiates.  Phil did not know the details of the case.  He was asked by a mother to help save her child from profound and repeat abuse and decided to help.  He was not told of court proceedings.  For this act, he is set to report tomorrow to federal prison.  His sentence is 3 years.

Phil is Christian.  I'm Jewish.  I only mention this because he is set to report on the third day of Chanukah, the holiday that was established when the Maccabees rose up to fight against hedonism.  The 3rd day especially is connected with liberation.  I believe that G-d is sending a special sign. 

Chanukah commemorates Chana, who had 7 sons, all of whom chose to die rather than serve idols.  Many thousands fought with the Maccabees, whose main war was against the rampant homosexuality that the Ancient Assyrian Greeks sought to introduce into the Holy Land, heaven forfend.  Phil is a modern day martyr.  We cannot and must not sit back as this happens.  Our job as human beings of any faith is to speak out.  We must ask for a commutation and we must ensure that such a thing never happens again. 

A mother tried to save her daughter from unwanted bathing and berating from a non-relative who believed that previous relations with the mother should upend the definition of parenting.  A judge sought to take a child from her real and only true mother, sacrificing the child's well being and setting her up for clear and articulated abuse, all in the name of PC correctness.  This should be ok by no one.  Everyone must speak out.