Posted on 11/02/2004 1:18:51 PM PST by paudio
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers on Tuesday voted against banning parents from smacking their children.
In a passionate House of Commons debate, some lawmakers argued that even mild spanking should be outlawed and insisted children should be given the same legal protection against being hit as adults.
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Oh boy are you in trouble!
ZOT!
Good! I engage in it often.
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News flash: Tommy "-Boy" Daschle gets spanked by John Thune.
Heard this this morning, and Karry wants us to be more like Europe?
Tell this to Pam Oliver and Terell Owens..
Spanking children? Oops, never mind ..... ;)
If they want to give children the same rights as adults, then let's give them the same responsibility. Let's free parents from any responsibility for their children and eliminate juvenile law, trying all children as adults. Wanna trade? I didn't think so.
Thank Christ. Seriously. NuLabour was lurching towards yet another bizarre Orwellian dictat here.
The fact that they even had a vote on this is a complete joke.
Children - Yes. Monkeys - No.
Love your logic. But don't you know you're being "extreme" and "absurd"? Of course we would draw the line. Right? ;-)
No, it's the liberal mindset that says all this baby-pablum nice-nice stuff that's absurd. W/o the quote marks.
Great! I'm gonna sue my Paw. Then I'll have some money to pay my kid who's going to sue me. And my grandkid is going to . . . oh, never mind.
thanks, i needed the tension breaker!!
Great! When my adorable granddaughter, aka: demon seed, acts up, I'll send her over there to wreck their houses. No problem.
Spank early; spank often.
That means that Kerry can go to Britain and get a spanking over there too.
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