Munford: Liberal Rulings on Child Discipline—Anti-Spanking Judge

Munford:  Liberal Rulings on Child Discipline—Anti-Spanking Judge

By

James Trimm

One of the many reasons conservatives in the US have fought to prevent the US from ratifying the “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” is that the UN Committee's interpretation of the Convention encompasses a prohibition on corporal punishment including spanking.

This Liberal war on spanking has been in the news worldwide in recent days.  A South African court recently ruled that physical discipline in the home was not in line with the South African constitution, meaning parents who spank their children in South Africa could be jailed for assault.  This was not a result of legislation but was a clear case of judges legislating from the bench.  An organization called Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) has now filed an application for leave to appeal this recent judgment.

Beware!  This war on spanking is also beginning levied right here in the USA.  In his column in the New Your Post, just three years ago, Kyle Smith wrote:

Prediction: In 10 years, it’ll be illegal to spank your kids.

Progressivism’s never-ending zeal to intrude into our lives, bust up families and force us all to march to its grim beat means that yesterday’s absurdity turns into today’s hot topic in lefty opinion magazines, which turns into tomorrow’s law.

If the people resist such a change — if an actual statute can’t be passed — that matters little. Judges will simply impose their vision on us, chiding us all for not having the imagination to recognize that what looks like a radical new policy was there all along, lacking only a wise interpreter to come along to clarify it.

(Kyle Smith; Why liberals will try to outlaw spanking; New York Post; July 26, 2014)

This is the general liberal method of operation.  If their leftist agenda cannot pass at the ballot box, then they will force that agenda upon us thru activist courts which legislate from the bench.

This is not just happening in other countries or in blue states, it is happening right here in Texas.  And not just in blue counties, this is happening right here in deep red Tarrant County! 

This blogger has obtained such a court order signed by Associate Judge James Munford less than a month ago!  In Tarrant County, James Munford’s court is one of these activist courts that legislate from the bench.  As I documented in a recent blog, Texas law allows a parent to spank and reasonably discipline their child.  This is a basic parental right. 

Yet Munford’s court wrote an order, not requested by either parent, which not only prohibits both parents from spanking their child, but from even sending their child to bed without dinner… or even dessert!  In fact the court order would even prohibit a parent from assigning their child extra chores!

The court order states:

There shall be no corporal punishment of the child[ren].  The child[ren] shall not be hit, slapped, spanked at any time.  There shall not be any physical contact with a child.

In addition, a parent shall not use any form of punishment that would require physical style punishment or an extreme style of punishment.  For example, pushups, chin-ups, running laps, physical restraints, withholding food etc.

A parent may only use non physical means to discipline the child[ren] such as grounding, removal of privileges or “time out”.

  

This is a bunch of liberal drivel we have come to expect to come out of a California court, not a Texas Court, and especially not one in Tarrant County!

You might have thought that such liberal nonsense would only come from a Democrat.  But not so, Associate Judge James Munford is an anti-spanking judicial activist, legislating from the bench against a parent’s rights to reasonably discipline their child in accordance with Texas law.  Munford does not uphold Texas law, he replaces it with his own liberal anti-spanking anti-child discipline agenda!

Now Associate Judge Munford is running to become the District Court Judge of the 322^nd Family Court!  Fortunately he is being opposed by Jennifer Moore, a true conservative Republican who supports parent’s rights and will uphold the law and the Constitution.  Moore promises that she will never legislate from the bench!

It is time for Texans to stand up against judicial activists legislating from the bench!  Join me in supporting Jennifer Moore for the 322^nd Family Court!