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Children Are Not Property The idea that underlies the right-wing campaign for “parents’ rights.” (BARF)
NYMAG ^ | 4/14/2023 | SARAH JONES

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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To: bitt

Democrat Kiddie Rapers own your children.


21 posted on 04/14/2023 3:00:20 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: bgill

I grew up with leftist parents. I hated their ideas even as a child. But I was a child when out of my teachers, at least, believed in the individual and liberties.


22 posted on 04/14/2023 3:01:04 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (Desperately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come truep)
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To: bitt

For thousands of years and in every species, animals are either male or female (or an aberration of those). Those in the modern world sowing confusion among our children are the true authoritarians. You don’t break thousands of years of biological reality without a coordinated and determined effort.


23 posted on 04/14/2023 3:04:38 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: bitt

Another dried up know nothing leftist twit who abhors parental control over their own kids. She thinks they should be imprinted with HER values.

How many kids has she sacrificed for and brought up? None I’d wager.


24 posted on 04/14/2023 3:08:23 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: bitt

It didn’t take long for the prejudicial “right-wing” to appear. If you think your child is yours, and not the state’s, you are part of the problem according to the left-wing NYMAG.


25 posted on 04/14/2023 3:10:07 PM PDT by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: bitt

Twitter ^ | 5:33 AM · Apr 14, 2023 | Elon Musk:

@elonmusk:

Any parent or doctor, who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult, should go to prison for life!


26 posted on 04/14/2023 3:10:15 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump!: “They’re not after me! They’re after you I’m just in the way!)
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To: Steely Tom

Yeah, their body parts are property, as Planned Parenthood has proved.

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Exactly! The Leftist, feces-for-brains who wrote this article probably doesn’t have any problems with women treating their unborn children as property when they rub them out.


27 posted on 04/14/2023 3:10:16 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: bitt

WE DO NOT COPARENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT-—PERIOD


28 posted on 04/14/2023 3:13:02 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: bitt

OMG reading the comments, one karen is comparing childhood and slavery??? WTF..


29 posted on 04/14/2023 3:17:10 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: bitt

Well, the state sure seems to think that our children are their property.


30 posted on 04/14/2023 3:21:50 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: bitt

Well, the state sure seems to think that our children are their property.


31 posted on 04/14/2023 3:21:51 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: bitt

Children are not property. Agreed

And they’re DEFINITELY not the property of the government or any corrupt or commie politicians.


32 posted on 04/14/2023 3:23:39 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: bitt
"You can't let a young’n decide for himself. He'll grab at the first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it. Then, when he finds out there's a hook in it, it's too late. Wrong ideas come packaged with so much glitter that it's hard to convince ‘em that other things might be better in the long run. All a parent can do is say 'wait' and 'trust me' and try to keep temptation away."
33 posted on 04/14/2023 3:25:05 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: bitt

Parens patriae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parens_patriae


34 posted on 04/14/2023 3:25:17 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Torah? Are you crazy? That thing is just as bad as the Koran. Please don’t compare them to the Bible.


35 posted on 04/14/2023 3:27:15 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Grampa Dave

I’m ok with cheaper methods that save taxpayer’s money.


36 posted on 04/14/2023 3:28:26 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf

The Torah is the first 5 books of the Bible ... the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.


37 posted on 04/14/2023 3:33:49 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: bitt; All
Thank you for referencing that article bitt.

"A child can be broken, or stamped into shape, much like any domesticated animal. "


FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

From related thread...

Sadly, some “parents” are a serious threat to their children.

On the other hand, Mark 7:11-13 shows us that Jesus reprimanded the Pharisees for driving a wedge between parents and their children (my words), effectively nullifying the "Honor your mother and father" commandment by doing so.

In fact, Ephesians 6:4 shows us that the Holy Spirit led Paul to warn fathers not to exasperate their children.

So good parents are protected under 1st Amendment protection of religious expression imo.

38 posted on 04/14/2023 3:34:26 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Bulwyf

I guess you have a problem with Christ being a Jew.


39 posted on 04/14/2023 3:34:46 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: bankwalker

There’s more to it than that. I get that part but there’s more. It’s like when Mohammed added new version of the Koran.


40 posted on 04/14/2023 3:34:59 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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