[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwr7i76GJc0]Pastor Sentenced to Prison Over Bible Verse!
Published on May 30, 2012 by TheRiverMersey
Published on 30 May 2012 by TheAlexJonesChannel
Do you believe that parents should be able to spank their children? Do you ever express that opinion to others? If so, then you could be sent to prison. Sadly, that is exactly what happened to one pastor up in Wisconsin recently.
A minister named Philip Caminiti was sentenced to 2 years in prison for simply teaching that parents should spank their children when they misbehave. Please note that Caminiti was not accused of spanking anyone or of physically hurting anyone. He was put in prison simply for his speech. He was put in prison simply for what he was teaching others to do. Whether you agree with spanking or not, this should be incredibly sobering for all of us. Increasingly, speech is being penalized in the United States. Much of the time, the focus of the attacks by the forces of political correctness is on religious speech. If this trend continues, many of you that are reading this article might be put in jail for the things that you say in the coming years.
When many of us were growing up, once in a while our parents would take out a belt or a wooden paddle and give us a paddling on the behind when we did something wrong.
Was there anything wrong with that?
Of course not.
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BearDrummer
It is hard for me to be objective on this one, because I grew up in churches like this. I believe very strongly in religious freedom. I also believe that religious freedom means that your religion can’t interfere with others religion. I also believe in free speech.
The problem comes in that I also believe that even if you are allowed to believe and say, you are still bound to the consequences of such. Growing up in that environment that I did, I know where that message comes from, and I have seen the broken bodies that it leaves behind. Literal broken bodies.
It boils down like this: If you are a leader among people, and someone follows your words, then you should be accountable for the effect your words had on their actions… And since child abuse, especially in mostly closed religious circles, never gets reported, then yes, I can understand the sentence, if one of his congregation abused their children. And yes, spank, as described in the churches I was in, IS abuse.
There are just too many issues and too many unanswered questions to know which side of this to be on. If he was saying that a smack on the butt is ok, then it was wrong to send him to jail. If it was in response to child abuse from his congregation, then it wasn’t enough.
Anonymous
@BearDrummer: There are always abuses of power. In this case, the abuse of parental power which may lead to child abuse (my dad was way too liberal with spanking, he once spanked me with a big chunk of firewood).
However, I would NEVER say that the answer is to limit free speech.
To limit free speech as a solution is essentially to state that human beings are basically evil, that if they hear both evil and good then they will follow what is evil.
And secondly (and probably more importantly), limiting free speech will ALWAYS ultimately serve wicked people because they will find a way to exploit what cannot be said in public. Where there are shadows, there will be rats.
Those of us who believe in goodness and righteousness can best counter destructive speech by propagating good speech, and by living in a good and righteous manner ourselves.