GOP candidate endorses Death Panels - for children

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GOP candidate endorses Death Panels - for children

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I know some of us disagree about Evolution, but I think we can all agree on the necessity of having Death Panels for children. :rolleyes:

Charlie Fuqua, Arkansas GOP legislative candidate (who advocates expelling Muslims from America), wrote in God's Law:
The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline. Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents. The death penalty for rebellious children is not something to be taken lightly. The guidelines for administering the death penalty to rebellious children are given in Deut 21:18-21:
This passage does not give parents blanket authority to kill their children. They must follow the proper procedure in order to have the death penalty executed against their children. I cannot think of one instance in the Scripture where parents had their child put to death. Why is this so? Other than the love Christ has for us, there is no greater love then [sic] that of a parent for their child. The last people who would want to see a child put to death would be the parents of the child. Even so, the Scrpture provides a safe guard to protect children from parents who would wrongly exercise the death penalty against them. Parents are required to bring their children to the gate of the city. The gate of the city was the place where the elders of the city met and made judicial pronouncements. In other words, the parents were required to take their children to a court of law and lay out their case before the proper judicial authority, and let the judicial authority determine if the child should be put to death. I know of many cases of rebellious children, however, I cannot think of one case where I believe that a parent had given up on their child to the point that they would have taken their child to a court of law and asked the court to rule that the child be put to death. Even though this procedure would rarely be used, if it were the law of land, it would give parents authority. Children would know that their parents had authority and it would be a tremendous incentive for children to give proper respect to their parents.

"I think my views are fairly well-accepted by most people," Fuqua said to AP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/charlie-fuqua-arkansas-candidate-death-penalty-rebellious-children_n_1948490.html

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Re: GOP candidate endorses Death Panels - for children

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I was wondering if someone was going to bring this up. Hard to believe we're not being punked.
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Re: GOP candidate endorses Death Panels - for children

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What a damned nutcase.
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Re: GOP candidate endorses Death Panels - for children

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Thenomists are increasingly powerful in the religious right, which in turn is increasingly powerful in the Republican party, which in turn will control the federal government at some point.

Makes you think warm, fuzzy thoughts, doesn't it? We've gotten to the point where capital punishment for rebellious children is advocated, even praised because it will allow parents to scare their children into line, on the extreme end of the overton window. Think of what seems "moderate" by comparison.
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