This man is an evil idiot

Hey, moms and dads! Did your sullen 14-year-old leave his bed unmade this morning, despite weeks of harsh admonishments?

Bee of good cheer! This Arkansas legislator is on your side! He wants you to be allowed to have your child executed for rebelliousness!

Charlie Fuqua, the Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives who called for expelling Muslims from the United States in his book, also wrote in support for instituting the death penalty for "rebellious children."

In "God's Law," Fuqua's 2012 book, the candidate wrote that while parents love their children, a process could be set up to allow for the institution of the death penalty for "rebellious children," according to the Arkansas Times. Fuqua, who is anti-abortion, points out that the course of action involved in sentencing a child to death is described in the Bible and would involve judicial approval. While it is unlikely that many parents would seek to have their children killed by the government, Fuqua wrote, such power would serve as a way to stop rebellious children.

Fuqua combines the two most dangerous traits of a human being: he is stupid and evil at the same time. Stupid because while he opposes killing offspring before they are born (and so do I, for full disclosure) he supports killing them after they are born - stupidly not understanding that the basis for both is the same: the parent's choice, and nothing else.

Maybe I'll write him and point out what I have written before, that the very same arguments pro-abortion advocates use to support abortion can be used to support capital punishment. So we'll just call Fuqua's idea, "retroactive abortion," and see what he thinks then.