Conservative Papa

Please read the entire article from the Oakland Tribune: Inside Bay Area - Legislature to debate spanking

Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, wants to outlaw spanking children up to 3 years old. If she succeeds, California would become the first state in the nation to explicitly ban parents from smacking their kids.

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The bill, which is still being drafted, will be written broadly, she added, prohibiting “any striking of a child, any corporal punishment, smacking, hitting, punching, any of that.” Lieber said it would be a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail or a fine up to$1,000, although a legal expert advising her on the proposal said first-time offenders likely only would have to attend parenting classes.

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But Lieber is optimistic that lawmakers will find her proposal hard to resist. For the record, she does not have children and says she was not slapped as a child. But she does have a cat named Snoop, which her veterinarian told her never to hit.

“And if you never hit a cat,” Lieber said, “you should never hit a kid.”

Yet another liberal attempt to pervade our lives with government and establish the religion of Humanism in this country. Much better than I can articulate, the Bible gives the command and the reason for spanking:

Proverbs 23

¹³Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

¹⁴Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

This thing about the cat really got me! As if owning a cat has much to do with proper child rearing! When I was growing up, our cat received its share of swats. In fact, it lived in mortal fear of my father’s slipper which, at a moment’s notice, was known to become a missile targeted at the cat’s backside.

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