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OR: Abuse case sparks a clash over limits of tough parenting

By Alliance Alert

Wall Street Journal: "News of the case spread through this state capital, sparking outrage. Yet one subset of the community sprang to the Kozlovs' defense, holding demonstrations, filling the gallery at court hearings and flooding state officials with letters. Many of these supporters, Russian-born Christians like the Kozlovs themselves, believed the parents were disciplining their children according to Biblical law. In their view, the government was out to 'destroy the family because of their faith,' says Tatyana I. Bondarchuk, a counselor who helped brief authorities about the group."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).