Human Rights Are For Human Beings
By Doug Patton
January 22, 2007
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The second headline to catch my attention read, "California Lawmaker Seeks Ban on Spanking." It seems that Democrat Sally Lieber, a California State Assemblywoman, plans to introduce a bill that would ban parents from spanking their children. The proposed measure would make it a crime in California to spank a child under the age of four, and the law would carry a punishment of up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
Parental rights and property rights used to be sacrosanct in this country. Today, our legislators, and especially our courts, seem bent on turning the U.S. Constitution on its head in this area. Can you imagine a scenario whereby a terrorist and a child molester are on their way out of prison as a dog owner and a father who dared to spank his three-year-old child are on their way in? That is where we are headed. That is the future we are handing down to our children and grandchildren, and unless we stop this nonsense, they will grow up not knowing that human rights are for human beings.
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online, TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
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