"I dont know, I think the parents are wrong for denying treatment. I have never understood these snake handling types. Id want the best and immediate care for my kids. And this is the state, not the feds.."
snake handlers, holistics, aroma therapy et al..goofy maybe, but each is an exercise in volition, and that process is what government is supposed to protect.
The first principle of government is to promote the common good.
Government may tolerate bogus therapies, not because people have an unalienable right to them, but because the therapies generally cause little harm, and an effort to suppress them would be expensive and probably counterproductive.