Woman Charged With Child Abuse Uses Indiana Religious Freedom Law As Defense

[Snarkoleptic]

In typical conservative fashion, Pandora's box is gleefully thown open without considering the consequences.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/indiana-religious-freedom-child-abuse_us_57c724e7e4b0a22de093b67c?section=politics

Summary-she beat both kids to please her invisible sky-wizard.

An Indiana woman charged with child abuse is citing the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act in her defense, arguing that her religious beliefs allow her to discipline her child as she sees fit, free from government interference.

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Kin Park Thaing, 30, is facing felony abuse and neglect charges for beating her 7-year-old son with a coat hanger on Feb. 3, according to documents filed by Thaing’s lawyer in late July and reported by the Indianapolis Star on Wednesday. Doctors found 36 bruises on the boy’s back, thigh and left arm, and a bruise on his cheek in the shape of a hanger hook.

Thaing said she needed to stop her son from engaging in dangerous behavior that would have harmed his 3-year-old sister. She allegedly hit both children and told them to pray for forgiveness.

“I was worried for my son’s salvation with God after he dies,” Thaing said, according to court documents. “I decided to punish my son to prevent him from hurting my daughter and to help him learn how to behave as God would want him to.”

[Ilsa]

1. Maybe her daughter wouldn't be in danger if she wasn't so

Violent to her son.

[Snarkoleptic]

3. Indeed, she's made a brute of herself to protect her kids from a mythical character.

She's a frighteningly delusional person.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Funny, i bet if god tells someone to smoke pot, in indiana

That wont save them from a prison sentence under their ridiculously draconian drug laws.

[Snarkoleptic]

4. Your comment reminds me of Bobby Jindal passing Christo-centric legislation to

push school vouchers in Louisiana. He was later astonished to find that these State funds could be used by non-Christians.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/valarie-hodges-lawmaker-retracts-support-for-bill_n_1655249.html

Louisiana Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Watson, is retracting her support for Gov. Bobby Jindal’s voucher program, after realizing the money could be applied to Muslim schools, Livingston Parish News reports.

Hodges initially supported the governor’s program because she mistakenly equated “religious” with “Christian,” according to the report. Jindal’s reform package allows state education funds to be used to send students to religious schools.

“Unfortunately it will not be limited to the Founders’ religion... We need to insure [sic] that it does not open the door to fund radical Islam schools. There are a thousand Muslim schools that have sprung up recently. I do not support using public funds for teaching Islam anywhere here in Louisiana,” Hodges was quoted as saying in the Livingston Parish News.