Huffington Post:I Lost My Job Because I Wouldn't Let My Employer Hit My Toddler

[Swede]

"The campus day care sent me a memo giving them legal permission to hit my son, which they instructed me to sign and return."

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/lost-job-because-wouldn-t-123001525.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Not that I agree with this corporal punishment policy,

but wouldn't the refusal to sign simply have resulted in refusal to enroll this toddler? This seems like the premise for a legal action of wrongful termination.

[Swede]

2. I think she was done with the fundamentalism, and it was time to move on.

I googled her name and she is a professor at a different university now. She also wrote a book about fundamentalism.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. OK, that makes sense.

[niyad]

4. Read the whole story. bob jones cult. .oopps, university and their insane,

fundamentalist, authoritarian, child-abusing, mindset. Quite disturbing.

[dsc]

12. If you read the article they required she use their daycare

and deemed her refusal to sign a public proclamation of disbelief in their teachings which was an offence worthy of firing in their eyes.

[malaise]

5. Hug your abuser little buy

Talk about grooming.

[Scrivener7]

6. Wow. That is eye opening. I didn't realize those schools had tentacles into every aspect of their

employees' lives that way.

[Grins]

7. In the article she called it "pain-driven ideology."

Cuz' ya' know - Jesus!!

[BComplex]

8. That's so sick I want to puke.

Pedophiles get turned on by exactly those kinds of things. They are grooming parents, and by extension, kids, to be pedophiles. That is one reason the churches have so many of them!

[azureblue]

9. the response should be

please provide the research to justify corporal punishment, including long term affects. Please sign attached document, to the affect of, the institution and the spanker will be held liable for any physical damage to the child, both short and long term. Also, Corporal punishment is forbidden, unless it is recorded in video, and anyone involved is identified in the video.

IOW, consequences...

[keithbvadu2]

10. We have Christians in America who teach how to beat babies.

We have Christians in America who teach how to beat babies.

These must be some lovely people =

Beating Babies in the Name of Jesus? The Shady World of Right-Wing 'Discipline' Guides

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2011/11_12/2011_11_08_TheAlternet_BeatingBabies.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20101104141241/http://www.achristianhome.com/to_train_up_a_child.htm

They even recommend what type of plumbing tubing to use.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=plumbing+tubing+to+beat+babies

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https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2011/11_12/2011_11_08_TheAlternet_BeatingBabies.htm

This Christian is Selling Child-Beating Sticks (But He Doesn’t Want the Internet to Find Out)

(easily fits in a ...diaper bag).
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'Spare the rod, spoil the child.' A rod was a stick used by shepherds to guide their sheep to go in the desired direction. Shepherds did not use it to beat their sheep. The proper translation of the saying is 'Give your child guidance, or they will go astray.' It does not mean 'Beat the hell out of your child or he will become rotten' as many seem to believe.
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[MissB]

11. I got a daycare worker fired

and I have zero regrets.

When my kids were still in daycare (um, they're in grad school now, so it's been a few years ), there was a daycare center conveniently located on the 1st floor of the building that I worked in. I could go down there on my breaks/lunch and nurse my infant or see my toddler.

The oldest one was moved to the toddler room at one point. I think he was almost 2.5 years. The toddler room took naps on cots, all of them at the same time whether or not they wanted to. He apparently didn't want to that day. I walked in at the moment the worker smacked my kid. I was not a nice person in that moment.

I took the kids home for the day, and needless to say, the worker was no longer employed by the end of that day. Adults that hit kids should not work anywhere near kids. Hitting kids is a trigger for me. My mom hit me frequently; I didn't want that for my kids at all.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Not just children/babies --- Spanking your wife

"Leadership Like Christ"

https://spankingyourwife.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/leadership-like-christ/

The longest segment is:::

7. He Corrects Her

[grantcart]

23. Exactly. The woman, a Ph'd candidate was fine with everything else

that the laughable Bob Jones U does but only drew a line at spanking a child.


Pretty disturbing.

[cab67]

14. I saw Shiny Happy People -

The scene alluded to in the article, about an older man demonstrating spanking on stage with someone’s young child, is the most disturbing thing I saw in the series.

And that’s saying something, because the whole bloody series is disturbing.

The man seemed gleeful in his demonstration. And not ‘gleeful’ as in ‘I get to show off my alleged wisdom to a crowd,’ either. It was more ‘I get to exert power over a small child and hit his buttocks.’ It was true depravity.

I tried to visualize Jesus Christ confronting this person, and all I could see was Jesus shaking his head sadly and walking away.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

21. Why would the guy who beat up a bunch of merchants

for a nonviolent offense, and who thinks thateternal torture people is how to treat people who didn't believe what he said...

Turn away from beating a child? You do realize that among those people who will be tortured are children...right?

[cab67]

24. I didn't say he would turn away from the beating of a child.

I said I could only see him turning away from the person who had done such a thing - and only because the depravity of his past deeds was so deep.

Moreover, I was expressing what I was able to visualize at the time, not what Jesus was likely to have actually done.

[TeamProg]

15. Borowitz?? Come on! No?!?!?!

[blm]

16. Compelling read.

[barbtries]

17. what is this shit?!

never.

just read the whole article. i know i live in a bubble but it chills me to the bone to think that millions of people are institutionalizing cruelty and enforcing it from cradle to grave all under the guise of religion. it's sick, sick, sick

fundamentalism in any religion is toxic. fuck the patriarchy

[sybylla]

18. Fundies gonna fundy.

So willfully blind to think everything about this was in any way unlikely, let alone not part of church doctrine at Bob Jones. The whole entity screams authoritarian patriarchy. Yikes.

[blm]

19. This is real indoctrination and grooming.

[Axelrods_Typewriter]

20. I got heated reading this.

Anybody who does this sick shit should be thrown under the jail. Completely and utterly sickening.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

22. i couldn't read the whole story, it was so disturbing

[elocs]

25. I saw the article title on HP & didn't even bother to click it

because it seemed so ridiculous and just headline writer clickbait. Odd that I would need to come here to find out what it was all about.