Parents Must Kowtow to Government Schools

No matter your stance on homosexuality, the Maryland State Board of Education's recent ruling should make you cringe.

Apparently, a parent's right to raise his children as he see fit ends where the Board of Indoctrination says it ends. The Board said "that right is not absolute. It must bend to the State's duty to educate its citizens."

Parents had opposed the addition of sexual orientation to Montgomery County's sex-education courses.

Opposition groups argued that the new lessons violate free-speech rights of students by expressing only one viewpoint on homosexuality, wholly favorable, and that they restrict religious expression by suppressing the view that homosexuality is a sin. They said the lessons violate the constitutional right of equal protection by excluding the perspective of former homosexuals and also the fundamental right of a parent to control the upbringing of a child. (Link: Md. State Board Approves County's Sex-Ed Curriculum, Washington Post)