No Parental Rights
by Kevin McCullough

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it simply, "There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children." In doing so, the most overruled appeals court in the land was simply contemptuous of parents who seek to bring up their children, "in the way they should go."

The case involved a California public school survey which asked children among other things, "if they ever thought about having sex or touching other's 'private parts' and whether they were able to 'stop thinking about having sex.'"

Parents who had been offended at this gross invasion of privacy into the lives of first, third, and fifth graders, had sought legal action to force educators in California to stop such highly inappropriate questioning. The parents maintained that they had the right to be the sole judge over who educated their children in sexual matters.

But in defiance of common sense and the sensibility of good parents everywhere the arrogant 9th U.S. Circuit added to, "there is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children" that "Parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students."

In other words, conscientious parents are not only not congratulated their acts are made illegal. The court went on to add, "no such specific right can be found in the deep roots of the nation's history and tradition or implied in the concept of ordered liberty."

It is clear that the courts have no regard for the intent and wishes of parents in the exposure of young people to sexual matters. But the court ruling moves well beyond just the survey. It is clear that the outcome of the court's ruling will be that parents will have no right to protest whatever a public educator says, displays, teaches, or instructs about sex or anything else to their children.

Since the ruling effects nearly a third of the United States, professional educators in those states will have an unprecedented upper hand in pushing an aggressive sexual envelope - at least for a period of time. Should an appeal be slow in coming the court may have mandated the robbery of every child's innocence in those states and the parents get no say in the matter.

The arrogance of the ruling continues the leftist thinking of the federal courts. Parents are viewed as weak and without rights and courts are viewed as institutions whose rulings are on par with sacred texts. This has laid the foundation for the eventual complete takeover of the moral training of our children by the state.

This ruling must not be allowed to stand. The risk to our culture, not to mention our families, is beyond calculation.

Kevin McCullough is heard daily in New York City, Connecticut, RhodeIsland, NewJersey, Pennsylvania, and Delawareon AM 570 WMCA and AM 970 WWDJ from 1-4pm, other stations adding soon. F Read KMC daily on his web-log at http://kmc.crosswalk.com.

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