Old Time Religious Republican Family Values

All Hail Sam Malone!

Verily I say unto you: Spare the belt beating of your child to a bloody pulp, resulting in hospitalization and a restraining order, and you spoil the child of a Republican elected official.

The Bible doesn't say that?

Could've fooled me.

Cincinnati Councilman, Sam Malone, "serves on the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Mental Health Board."

Sam Malone is "an accomplished boxer, wrestler, and powerlifter, he is Former Golden Gloves Boxing Champion, All Navy Boxing Champion, the Ohio two time State Power Lifting Champion, and Amateur Wrestling Champion."

No wonder Sam Malone was able to beat his 14 year old son so expertly that the child had to be hospitalized. His son was an easy target.

City Councilman accused of beating son

5/15/2005, 11:16 p.m. ET
The Associated Press

CINCINNATI (AP) — Police arrested a Cincinnati city councilman early Saturday morning and charged him with domestic violence for allegedly beating his son.

Sam Malone, 34, pleaded innocent to the misdemeanor charge and was released from the Hamilton County Justice Center. His son is staying with a relative after a judge instituted a temporary restraining order prohibiting Malone from having contact with him.

Doctors contacted authorities after treating Malone's 14-year-old son at an area hospital Friday night. They reported they found welts and belt marks on the boy's body, said Laurie Petrie, a spokeswoman for the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services.

"For a child to be disciplined to the point of going to the hospital, we would be looking at that as possible abuse," she said... LINK

Hm. What did Sam Malone say about this in his prepared statement?

"Our children cannot be expected to act in a disrespectful way to teachers and other individuals in positions of authority," he said in a prepared statement. "Proper discipline is an important and necessary component of good parenting."

Proper discipline, Sam?

Going Old Testament on your child is now, thankfully, against the law.

Hey, Sam! Picking on someone your own size (and level of whoop ass expertise) is also the law of the land today. If your son gets a good lawyer, your beloved boxing championships (and all that they imply: your hands are lethal weapons, Buddy!) could send you away for a really long time.

I'll bet the ranch that Sam believes in the sanctity of marriage and the Gawd-given rights of the unborn, too.

It's way past time for some values clarification, Sam.

Heavyweight sigh.