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/ 18 September 2007

Children’s Bill: Christians back corporal punishment

Christian parents are required by God to use a rod on their children if they are defiant or rebellious, MPs heard on Tuesday. ”We do not have the option … this is a command of God,” George Raath of Life Enrichment Ministries told members of Parliament’s social development portfolio committee on Tuesday. The committee is holding public hearings on the Children’s Amendment Bill.

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