I doubt if most Americans think we should turn America into a fundamentalist Christian version of Iran. That reminds us why American Law should not be carved in unchanging Biblical code. Currently several families can claim religious reasons for allowing their infant children to die from easily treatable diseases. As they refuse to seek proper medical help, and rely on Prayer. The author makes it clear that stoning is only for disobedient adult children.
Young children are to be reproved with the rod.
Even the Pharisees of Jesus's time squirmed with the wording on this one, falling over themselves to try to mitigate this law's meaning and impact. And, the priest commenting on this issue gave an answer that still aggravated me by showing how religion spawns a specific mindset to rob imagination. I have heard several religious experts and believers make this claim, yet, in reading several of the quotes from this web site's letters, other web sites and books, I see that everyone seems to take a passage as literal. I think the notion of reading the Bible as metaphors is simply an excuse that the churches of Europe made during the Catholic Reformation to keep themselves legitimate and remain in power. This makes me question the education that comes from the Bible in its millenia of study since proof in it exists to show that its supposed to be metaphors, and even hundreds of years after Christ, it's still read literally.