Is Your Four-Year-Old Acting Gay? "Give Him A Good Punch"

[filkertom]

Some people are just twisted:Sean Harris, the Senior Pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has some words of advice for parents of possibly LGBT children: Smack them around. Beat the gay out of them. Or, in his precise words, "Give [him] a good punch!"
I followed the link in the dKos story, and listened to the audio of

Comments

[lucky_otter]

The only kind of punch you should give to kids is the kind made of fruit.

[redneckgaijin]

It just occurred to me; are you too young to remember the old Hawaiian Punch animated ads? }:-{D

[lucky_otter]

I think those were still on air up until the early 90s. Anyway, I've definitely seen them before.

[dan_ad_nauseam]

But not Kool-Aid

[mountain_hiker]

That's all kinds of fucked-up. O_o;

[jannyblue]

The only excuse for punching a kid (or any other person) is if they hit you first with sufficient force that you are (or would be) actually injured.

But that's self-defense. What this guy is advocating is insane, illegal, and just plain wrong.

Bit of background: In my 20s, I once had a 12-year-old sneak up behind me with a bat. He backed down when I turned around and saw what he was doing. If he'd actually hit me with it, and it didn't knock me out, I would have fought back... and I fight dirty.

[bayushisan]

While I do think that parents shouldn't put their sons in dresses, just a personal opinion, I don't think that fathers should be punching their four year olds. If there's a question about bad behaviour you punish bad behaviour appropriately but you don't abuse your kids.

[mimiheart]

My son and his sister were about the same size. I never put him in a dress, but he would often put them on himself. (Since at age four, children like to pick out their own clothes.) Also, we had dress-up bins and he was just as likely to put on a tutu as a doctor costume -- so were his sisters. I'm not putting him in a dress, he's a kid picking out clothes to wear.

[pbrim]

As appalling as this is, there is worse out there. Such as this, where a radio personality, in all seriousness, advises a father of a lesbian to get one of his friends to "[rape] her straight".

[starcat_jewel]

I was about to post that one, but you beat me to it. Of course, he'll pull the "it was just a joke, I'm an entertainer, where's your sense of humor?" defense and probably get off with a slap on the wrist at worst.

[zellion]

Ditto, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this other post.

[redneckgaijin]

Let the preacher use the exact same defense. Oh please.