Have you forgotten what you were like as a child? I know for a fact I earned some of the spankings I got from my mum. My dad was always more into lecturing. Both methods have their merits, it has to be said.
This book and these monstrous fundamentalists can go eat a huge bowl of fuck, as far as I'm concerned, the spanking is nowhere near as important to discipline as making the child understand WHY they are being spanked. The rod as divine salvation is just sickening. I'm pretty grateful that these people have lost their parenting rights, although I feel that the prison sentences here were not harsh enough. They adopted a child then beat her to death. You shouldn't be getting out of prison EVER after something like that.
You may not be able to blame his book, but you can certainly condemn his response to the case, the very fact that he showed no disgust at a 7 hour beating resulting in the death of a child shows him to at the very least be a raving sociopath. I'd like to beat this Pearl guy for 7 straight hours with some 1/4" Plumbing Line.
