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Maryam Khanum

Republican Lawmaker Invokes Bible Scripture in Debate Against Banning Corporal Punishment Use on Disabled Children in Schools

An Oklahoma State Senator cited Bible scripture as reasoning for his opposition to a bill that would ban schools from using corporal punishment on disabled students. This is a representational image. (Credit: Klaus Vedfelt/Gettyimages)

An Oklahoma state senator voiced his opposition to a bill that would ban schools from inflicting corporal punishment onto disabled students after it passed the Senate earlier this week, citing Bible scripture as his reasoning.

Republican state Sen. Shane Jett voiced his opposition to the bill, stating that its implementation represented "a top down socialist aligned ideological, unilateral divorce between parents' ability to collaborate with their local schools to establish a disciplined regimen," reported the Oklahoma Voice.

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