Posted on 11/29/2010 11:32:21 AM PST by massmike
The Ninth Circuit has just announced that the panel hearing the appeal of Judge Vaughn Walker’s anti-Prop 8 ruling will consist of Stephen Reinhardt, Michael D. Hawkins, and N. Randy Smith.
As regular Bench Memos readers know, Reinhardt (appointed by President Carter in 1980) may well be the most aggressive liberal judicial activist in the nation—and the most reversed judge in history. Hawkins, a 1994 Clinton appointee, is also regularly on the Left on the Ninth Circuit.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
homosexual agenda ping
More on Reinhardt:
“.....When I read the latest affront to civilization of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (dubbed the 9th Circus, by its critics), I recalled the words my old friend Rabbi Mayer Schiller – Talmudic scholar and hockey coach – pronounced at a conservative conference a decade ago: “Liberalism isn’t a political philosophy. It’s a vile combination of sickness and evil.”
That’s the only way to describe the 9th Circuit’s recent attack on parental rights – a thing to be abominated, excoriated and placed in the same category as the Spanish Inquisition, Jeffrey Dahmer’s cookbook and photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe.
The court held that public schools can expose your children to any depravity, can erotically indoctrinate them, can sexualize them when they’re barely out of diapers – and you can’t do a damn thing about it.
The case involved a questionnaire distributed to 7- to-10 year-olds in the Palmdale, California school system. The survey asked students to rate how often they thought about “touching my private parts too much,” “thinking about other people’s private parts,” “having sex feelings in my body” and so on. Schools that can’t teach kids how to tie their shoes are really into sexual instruction.
The interrogation was designed to elicit highly personal information to be used to turn children against parental values and make them compliant citizens of the sexual utopia the left has been constructing for half a century.
On Wednesday, the 9th Circuit dismissed a suit by parents against the school district. Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, Judge Stephen Reinhardt (Robespierre meets Kinsey) declared that parents have neither due process nor privacy rights when it comes to sexual brainwashing.
Reinhardt also was the author of the 2002 decision in which the 9th Circuit held that it was unconstitutional for students to say the Pledge of Allegiance with the words “one nation under God.” In part, this was based on so-called church/state grounds, but also because it supposedly violated the rights of atheist parents to transmit their values to their children.
Thus, examining the rulings side by side, Reinhardt believes exposing children to God (in the form of four words in the Pledge) violates parental rights, but conducting sexual interrogations — over parental objections — does not. Simple explanation: God threatens the left’s agenda, sexual indulgence facilitates it.
In the Palmdale decision, Reinhardt decreed: “There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children.” Further, “We also hold that parents have no due process or privacy rights to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children are exposed as enrolled students.”
Roll it around on the tongue to fully savor the absurdity of Reinhardt’s position. His honor is saying that nowhere in our long history or experience as a free people, or in the concept of “ordered liberty” – from the Bible to the Magna Carta to the Constitution — can the court find a right of parents to guide and direct their children’s upbringing.
http://www.donfeder.com/articles/0511parentsrights.pdf
Actually, there is something you can do about it. You can put your kids in private school or homeschool them. In a school district that teaches the things discussed here, not to do so is tantamount to child abuse.
You can also tell your kids not to answer intrusive questions, either orally or in writing. A bunch of parents can tell the school to knock it off or they will pull their kids out.
If enough parents do that, that’ll be the end of it. School administrators like their cushy jobs.
Thanks - will ping it out tomorrow.
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