Religiously Beating an Adopted Child to Death

I'm speechless, yet I want to scream obscenities at the top of my lungs. Keep this in mind the next time someone tells you there can't be any morals without religion. Anyone who blindly follows the teachings of a book can be easily misled to do some truly miserable and disgusting things.

On another note, remember this the next time someone tells you that one dad and one mom are proven to be best for children.


Ugh:

Three years ago, Kevin Schatz and his wife Elizabeth did something so noble, a local television station featured them; the pair decided to adopt three children from Liberia. Now, they're accused of killing one of the children because she mispronounced a word.

Prosecutors say that the California couple used quarter-inch plastic tubing to beat their seven-year-old adopted daughter to death.

Apparently, they got the idea from a fundamentalist Christian group, which promotes this as a way of training children to be obedient.