Mark Robinson Touts Corporal Punishment for Kids

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) said a loving approach to discipline misbehaving children is to “beat them in a circle,” WUNC reports.

Said Robinson: “We have perverted the word love. We don’t understand the word love. We don’t understand what love really is. We think love is sunshine and rainbows, and put your arms around somebody saying ‘I love you, brother’ — certainly that’s a form of love.”

He added: “But how many of y’all know when you hold your young’un by one arm and beat them in a circle, because they were bad — how many of you know that’s love too?”