{"id":388,"date":"2011-08-16T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T20:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=388"},"modified":"2015-02-17T16:55:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T21:55:34","slug":"good-spankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Good Spankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\">August, 2011<\/p>\n<p>The following short report and commentary is taken from the Summer, 1994 issue of <em>Capitol Area Christian News<\/em>.\u00a0 It points up fundamental principles of parenting toward which the American federal government is hostile.\u00a0 Laws enacted in the late 20<sup>th<\/sup> century by post-Christian western civilization have become increasingly hostile to basic Christian law: the imago Dei and the right and responsibility of parents to discipline their children and bring them up as Christians catechizing them in the Law of God and the Gospel of Messiah.<\/p>\n<p>In this particular article, the hostility of the then-U.S. President Bill Clinton to things wholesome and good takes further expression in his intrusion into the internal affairs of a distant land \u2013 Singapore.\u00a0\u00a0 Clinton was surely a poseur, masquerading as a \u201cgood southern Baptist.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not satisfied with advancing immorality in the nation of his birth\u00a0by his own blatant support of abortion rights and his personal example of numerous adulteries,\u00a0\u00a0he must spread it abroad.\u00a0\u00a0 Indeed, the audacity of a man, who wallows in his moral degradation to even imagine that he has any counsel for a nation across the ocean, whose governors possess moral qualities far above his own, can be nothing but a product of\u00a0blind egoism.\u00a0\u00a0 We are still in a state of wonder and disgust in Anno Domini 2011.<\/p>\n<p>When one contemplates the current President who unabashedly advocates for the normalization of <strong>abortion<\/strong> and <strong>sodomy<\/strong> and does not hide his Communist associations and doctrines, he stands aghast.\u00a0\u00a0The blatant personal incontinence, the lust for power, and the feigned good-old-boy Christian Americanism so feigned and\u00a0flaunted by Clinton\u00a0arouses\u00a0pure indignation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">CACN, Summer, 1994<\/p>\n<h1>Good Spankings<\/h1>\n<p>Singapore&#8217;s Home Affairs Minister responded to the pious pleadings of Clinton, the AMA, the ABA, and numerous human rights champions regarding the then impending caning of vandalist Michael Fay: &#8220;It is absurd that societies so stricken with crime should attempt to apply their standards on us and teach us what to do.&#8221;\u00a0 (<em>Washington Times<\/em>, 24 April, 1994)<\/p>\n<p>Now if true justice requires the death penalty for recidivist delinquents (Dt. 21:18-21), a little preventative guidance by corporal use of the rod doesn&#8217;t seem all that barbaric.\u00a0 But then, a President who <em>aborts his own child<\/em> and taxes people to unwillingly pay for others to abort <em>their<\/em> own; appoints sodomites to govern the land; and presides over atrocities against his own citizenry (a la Waco) is a President who doesn&#8217;t know what barbarism is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August, 2011 The following short report and commentary is taken from the Summer, 1994 issue of Capitol Area Christian News.\u00a0 It points up fundamental principles of parenting toward which the American federal government is hostile.\u00a0 Laws enacted in the late 20th century by post-Christian western civilization have become increasingly hostile to basic Christian law: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}