[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25563]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       RESTRICTIONS ON PARENTING

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, the out-of-touch notorious Ninth Circuit 
Court of Appeals has struck again. They have created their own version 
of restrictions on parenting. These wayward judges rule that parents do 
not have a constitutional right to prevent a public school from 
teaching students whatever it wishes, including sexual information.
  Instead, they say that the State has ultimate power over the 
education of our children. This ruling stems from a case filed by 
parents whose children, ages 7 through 10, were given a survey that 
asks questions pertaining to sex that are even too expressive to repeat 
on this House floor.
  According to the education police judges, when parents decide to send 
their child to a public school, the parents lose authority and control 
over what the child is taught. The State decides.
  This ruling violates the Constitution. The Supreme Court long ago 
ruled that parents do have the fundamental right to make decisions 
about the care, custody, education, and control of their children. This 
is just another example of elite judges trying to replace parents with 
bureaucrats. Out-of-control judges are taking away property rights, our 
pledge rights, and now they are after our parenting rights. This ought 
not to be.

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