Family Council Joins Legal Brief Asking Supreme Court to Protect Parental Rights
On Wednesday, Family Council joined 65 other organizations in a legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to defend parental rights and stop a California school district’s secret social gender transition policy.
The case is Mirabelli v. Bonta. Parents and teachers are challenging a school district policy that required teachers to deceive parents about their child’s gender transition at school.
Advancing American Freedom led the amicus brief filed last week. In a statement, AAF said:
One of the families who brought this challenge did not find out that their daughter was being treated as a boy at school until after she attempted suicide.
The federal district court in San Diego rightly found for the parents and teachers and permanently enjoined Gavin Newsom’s California from imposing secret social transition policies on teachers and parents. However, the Ninth Circuit temporarily stayed the district court’s injunction leaving families and teachers exposed once again.
AAF’s brief on behalf of itself and other amici argued that this case is part of a nationwide pattern affecting parents and families, often irreversibly. The Supreme Court has, so far, avoided these critical questions. They must do so no longer.
Unfortunately the school policy in California is not an isolated incident. Over the years, we have seen pro-LGBT activists use public schools to promote transgender ideology and gender confusion to kids in many different ways.
Last year the U.S. Department of Education announced it was investigating four school districts in Kansas for alleged secret gender transitions after a complaint alleged that school officials let male students into females’ private spaces and sports at school and hid students’ sexual identity confusion from their parents.
Last summer, Family Council joined dozens of other pro-family organizations from across the country in an amicus brief regarding a New York school district that treated a middle-school girl as if she were a boy without her mother’s knowledge or consent.
Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom have spoken out about how schools are hiding important information about students from their parents. But policymakers, legal experts, and parents are pushing back.
Arkansas has enacted good laws to help prevent schools from socially transitioning children or promoting radical pro-LGBT ideology in the classroom. These are good laws that protect children and affirm parental rights. But federal court cases like the one in California could affect schools nationwide. That’s why it’s important for us to stand up for students and parents in this case.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.
Assisted Suicide Puts Pressure on Vulnerable Patients
Last month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a deal to legalize assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
The so-called “Medical Aid in Dying Act” is supposed to make it possible for patients expected to die within six months to request a prescription for lethal drugs.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a similar assisted suicide law in December as well.
Despite the claim that these types of laws contain “safeguards,” patients facing expensive medical care also face pressure to opt for assisted suicide or euthanasia.
In 2019 a Canadian man with ALS made headlines when he chose to take his own life under the country’s assisted suicide and euthanasia laws after the government chose not to provide him with 24-hour home healthcare services due to cost.
In parts of the U.S. where physician-assisted suicide is legal, insurance companies have refused to pay for patients’ medical care, but have offered to cover assisted-suicide drugs.
Arkansas protects innocent human life from conception to natural death. We must resist laws that would pressure people into ending their lives. There is nothing “compassionate” about giving someone a prescription for lethal drugs.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.