That rational, logical, research-based position will satisfy some, but it will not satisfy anti-spanking activists, who would have the government tell parents how they may and may not discipline their children. They see no difference between two open-handed swats to a child’s rear end and a brutal beating.
These are some of the extremists Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis had in mind when he wrote that “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding.”
—John Rosemond, On Spanking Children
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He is professor emeritus of church history and historical theology at Westminster Seminary California, where he taught for 29 years. He also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007 and the Heidelcast since 2009.
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Anti-spanking is anti-Christian, and anti-freedom-of-religion.
http://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/anti-spanking-is-anti-christian-and-anti-freedom-of-religion/