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  The way Republicans see it, if parents won't take their kids to church to have them traumatized with threats of hellfire and damnation, then the state will show them what hell is.
context: TEXAS, leave those kids alone! 
  Republicans can't be happy if they're not harming someone. >
  
  
  Republicans can't be happy if they're not harming someone.
  
  Particularly if that someone can't really harm them back. >
  
  Cruelty is a win? Children being miserable and frightened is a win? Increased S attempts or families losing children is a win?