Posted on 04/14/2023 2:35:07 PM PDT by bitt
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” the Book of Proverbs says. To certain right-wing Christians, the concept is simple: A child can be broken, or stamped into shape, much like any domesticated animal. Though all parents hope they’ll pass their values onto their children, for some that hope is more of a mandate. My own parents believe that Proverbs is the word of God, and they believed, too, that a righteous upbringing would produce an adult in their image. Who can blame them? The idea that a child should replicate her parents does not belong only to conservative Christianity or to religion at all. A proverb is common wisdom, and lately this one is hard to escape. Authoritarianism is gospel to modern conservatives. Nowhere is that clearer than in their assaults on children.
The “parental rights” movement is not new, but it is enjoying a resurgence. Adherents say they’re protecting children from harm, broadly defined. After an art teacher at a Florida charter school showed students a picture of Michelangelo’s David, parental complaints forced out the principal. Members of Moms for Liberty call for book bans across the country; books with LGBT content are at special risk of removal. The architects of state bans on gender-affirming care for minors say, falsely, that children are at risk from predatory physicians and activists. A “gender cult” destroys families, claimed conservative commentator Matt Walsh. “The child they held as a baby and raised and gave their lives to and loved and still love becomes, suddenly, unrecognizable,” he said. “I would rather be dead than have that happen to my kids.” The real sin isn’t that trans youth will suffer but that the parental grip might loosen.
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Children are NOT the property of the state!
Yeah, their body parts are property, as Planned Parenthood has proved.
Bingo.
Parent are the guardians of the well being of their kids…. Period. Well being is a relative term in the case to some extent, meaning parents have the right to know and oppose anything they deem unacceptable. It has nothing to do with ownership… lordy.
You will quickly learn that children are property.
The state thinks kids are their property until the kid acts on what evils he’s taught by the state and suddenly the parents are blamed.
The line of witnesses for this harridan’s sanity hearing will be very long.
“Nowhere is that clearer than in their assaults on children.”
One of my sons has come home from school with this basic concept, and has age-limits on when they say he can do things without our permission or involvement. Fight our kids or the system? The values arguement is hard to sustain when they are being indoctrinated is difficult challenge; money, which enables freedom, conditions responsibility, seems to be only immediate limiter.
"Your children are to be raised free of values, left to be shaped by any predator that comes along."
Oh yes they are. They are mine until they are old enough and desire to be on their own.
>Children are NOT the property of the state!
Bingo! The parents have the responsibility over the children.
“A child can be broken, or stamped into shape, much like any domesticated animal.”
Damn right. Go to any inner city to see what happens when the child is NOT broken.
The authors have things bass ackwards, as usual. It is the academic public education state that is viewing K-12 kids as property, THEIR property.
Actually in their opinion children ARE property… of the State.
No other place can anyone turn and readily avoid the repetitive mistakes and sins of man simply by studying the Bible with wisdom in mind. The alternative is making those mistakes and suffering the consequences. No one is able to live long enough to make it through all the life lessons contained in the Bible by experience alone.
agree. I may borrow that, thanks.
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