Pseudo-historian rightwinger fundie David Barton sez Bible justifies and even encourages spanking.

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Pseudo-historian rightwinger fundie David Barton sez Bible justifies and even encourages spanking.

Barton On Spanking: "We Do The Same Thing With Horses"

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Barton argues that a judge had no right to convict her (a woman convicted of causing injury to a child) because, he explained, the Bible justifies and even encourages spanking.

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The right-wing pseudo-historian blames evolution as the culprit for the diminishment of spanking, maintaining that the application of evolution already ruined our understanding of the Constitution, science, and history, and is now set to destroy traditional parenting:

Barton: Always in the Bible, discipline is with a rod, it�s not with a hand. �Cause the hand is supposed to reach out in love, you don�t want kids flinching from your hand. We do the same thing with horses. When I reach my hand to the face of a horse, I don�t want to flinch him from my hand. So if I have to beat a horse, and occasionally I do, you take something like a switch or a little crop or something else. And you can�t hurt a horse, I mean you can, but you have to convince a 1,200 lbs horse that me at 150 lbs is tougher than you and you do that by training. But when I extend my hand to my horse he doesn�t run from my hand, now he may not like that crop if he sees it, but after he�s had it a few time he�ll do exactly what I want, we have no difficulty, that�s why you also use spurs at times.

So the deal with spanking with hands, that�s why you really don�t want to do that you want to use something else so your hand is always associated with love and tenderness and reaching out to kids, there�s nothing to flinch, so people use belts or hairbrushes, or they can use a paddle or whatever it is.
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When you say something �your yea�s should be yeas, your nay�s nays,� say something, if they don�t follow through, no anger needed, there�s just a penalty to pay for it. A consequence.

So, you get this thing where we have now moved into applying evolution to parenting. Now we�ve already applied evolution to the Constitution, we�ve applied evolution to science, we�ve applied evolution to history, that�s why we don�t teach history, we teach culture. Not any of the of the fifty major universities in America, elite universities require any course in history, they all teach culture, not history. So we�ve applied evolution. Now we�re applying evolution to parenting, and �you don�t spank.�

Wait a minute, the Bible says I do. You mean we evolved past the Bible? That�s what you getting. As you can tell I�m exercised over this one.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barton-spanking-we-do-same-thing-horses

Who is this guy? From PFAW:

Introduction

Newt Gingrich promises to seek his advice and counsel for the 2012 presidential campaign. Mike Huckabee calls him America�s greatest historian, says he should be writing the curriculum for American students, and in fact suggested that all Americans should be �forced at gunpoint� to listen to his broadcasts. Michelle Bachmann calls him �a treasure for our nation� and invited him to teach one of her Tea Party Caucus classes on the Constitution for members of Congress. State legislators from around the country invite him to share his �wisdom� with them. Glenn Beck calls him �the most important man in America.� Who is this guy?

This guy is David Barton, a Republican Party activist and a fast-talking, self-promoting, self-taught, self-proclaimed historian who is miseducating millions of Americans about U.S. history and the Constitution.

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http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/barton-s-bunk-religious-right-historian-hits-the-big-time-tea-party-america?gclid=CPHN3sKaxqoCFaUZQgodWFpFyg