Proverbs 13: 24 says..."Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them." Unbelievably, a nation that was founded on Biblical principles such as this, now seizes children from loving parents for acting like...well...Christians. Parents who LOVE their children will discipline them. Other forms are fine, but once in awhile only a spanking fits the "crime."
Even in Minnesota, where the preamble to their State Constitution reads: "We, the people of the State of Minnesota, grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty and desiring to perpetuate its blessings and secure the same to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution"...so-called "child protective" "services" (CPS) is now making a mockery of their own State's laws, Constitution, AND THE PEOPLE.
(Dwight Mitchell announcing his suit...reherringalert.wordpress.com.)
One Minnesota dad, in particular, knows very well what happens when the people put aside Christianity and substitute godless psychobabble. He's had his family ripped apart and the lives of all the family members severely disrupted and harmed by the very agency which, by its own name, is supposed protecting and serving them.
Check out this story:
Here is a key excerpt from the link above:
"Mitchell’s encounter with the state came about when a family babysitter reported to officials that Mitchell had spanked his 11-year-old son. The babysitter reported the incident to Dakota County MN child protection workers who, Mitchell’s suit alleges, removed his children from the family home. Mitchell said he intended for the spanking to give his son guidance for stealing, disobeying his parents and failing to do assigned school work. He called it an act of love.
'It was every parent’s nightmare,' he was quoted in a newspaper interview a year ago. 'My children were legally kidnapped for a bottom spanking that was done out of love, because I want my children to grow up to be hardworking members of society.' He called it 'the most traumatic experience of my life…over ordinary discipline.' His middle son, whom he had spanked, was kept in state custody for nearly two years and the father was denied all contact with the boy over the entire period."
I feel for this dad. People don't want to talk about it, but the real "transformation of America" that Obama was talking about (and that Bernie Sanders and other Democrat candidates are STILL talking about) was to rip away, entirely, all the founding principles of the nation so that we can be comfortably subsumed in a Godless global technocracy where governments are supreme and where people have no rights--even in the upbringing of their own children.
We need to keep an eye on this case. Pray for Dwight Mitchell and his family. If the courts don't decide in favor their will be another dangerous precedent set...i.e. that parents do not have the right to act in Christian ways with regard to the upbringing of their own children.
(Image courtesy of rollingout.com.)
Make no mistake, if the Minnesota courts decide in CPS's favor in this case, all Christian parents who seek to raise their children as Dwight was seeking to raise his... to be hardworking members of society...will lose. You see, an all-powerful technocracy has no need for such citizens. They only want pliable and barely healthy enough people able to "work" for them and their corporate appendages, and who are totally reliant on government for every facet of their lives.