In Light of the Gospel

James M. Kushiner:

According to this Mike Huckabee interview with Michael Farris, a UN treaty may well finally go before the US Senate for vote this year or next spring, which would–do what? According to ParentalRights.org, there are 20 things parents need to know about this treaty, including the elimination of spanking. From the website’s linked footnote:

General Comment No. 8 (2006): The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment (arts. 19; 28, para. 2; and 37, inter alia), CRC/C/GC/8, (2006): “The Committee is issuing this general comment to highlight the obligation of all State parties to move quickly to prohibit and eliminate all corporal punishment…. Addressing the widespread acceptance or tolerance of corporal punishment of children and eliminating it, in the family, schools and other settings, is … an obligation of State parties under the Convention.”

(Who writes this stuff? So: It’s wrong to spank a child having a tantrum, but it’s okay to dismember him in the womb?)