Parents Under Fire!
Today I read of two court rulings - one in CA and one in TX - both of which continued the governmental assault on parental rights.
The CA case, which went to the Supreme Court, concerned violent video games being sold to minors. Apparently the Supreme Court thinks it has a solemn duty to NOT protect children of any kind (born or unborn). Funny thing, the government has intruded into every sphere of our lives but for some strange reason thinks minors should be able to buy violent games with absolutely no interference whatsoever. That was the ruling from the High Court - CA has no right to restrict minor's access to video games that bring gore to a whole new level.
And, here's the kicker, parents apparently have no right to want a law that helps them ensure their children cannot openly purchase this corrupting garbage without their physical presence and approval. Say what?
If the elected lawmakers of CA want a law to help parents properly shield their children from violence, then why should the Supreme Court even care? The two dissenting judges rightly applied what the Founder's would have intended by saying, in essence, they would not have purposed for the government to give free access to harmful things to children because the Founder's strongly embraced and upheld parental rights!
In other words, the government should encourage sound parenting, not discourage it, much less enable children to exercise their "freedoms" to the detriment of parental authority and the ruining of their own souls.
But Founder's intent is not something many judges are concerned with today.
The second case in TX is even more disturbing. A judge flatly told a mother to stop spanking her child, and gave her several years of probation. This, in spite of eyewitness testimony that none of the spankings had caused any physical damage to the child. The spankings did not even leave any bruises. [My Daddy would say this mother was not even really spanking the child, but that's another story.]
Now Christian parents, here is a dilemma we will surely have to face more routinely in this country. When, not if, the government tells us to stop spanking our children, what will we do?
God give us grace to answer in an Acts 5:29 fashion. The government does not know better than God how to raise children.
You can read about the two court cases at www.onenewsnow.com.
by Keith McWhorter