You are correct. The Consitution applies to the Federal government.
Does that exempt individual states from adhering to constitutional guidance? Can individual states restrict freedom of speech? Can they search your house without probable cause? I know they can violate the 2nd amendment on a whim, but guns are not PC, so everyone ignores that violation.
I think it was A. Lincoln (sp?) that said "There are reasons to force a person to do something. "For their own good" is not one of those reasons."
Of course not.
Can individual states restrict freedom of speech?
Irrelevant to the discussion: this is an enumerated right guaranteed by the Constitution. Denying your children medical services isn't an enumerated right.
Can they search your house without probable cause?
Again, irrelevant, since this is an enumerated right.
I know they can violate the 2nd amendment on a whim, but guns are not PC, so everyone ignores that violation.
Again, irrelevant, since the right to bear arms is another enumerated right.
I think it was A. Lincoln (sp?) that said "There are reasons to force a person to do something. "For their own good" is not one of those reasons."
No one forced the parents to do anything. They were actively trying to do their child a potentially dangerous disservice, and they were restrained from doing so. The good contemplated here was not "their own good" but the good of their child, who is not old enough to make his own decisions and who needs the parents who allegedly love him to take care of him - a responsibility these parents flatly refused.
The state government has a responsibility to all of its citizens, including that child.
People who whine about statism (and I don't mean you) generally ignore the fact that individual citizens, through their disgusting behavior, invite the state in.
I wish these parents were decent human beings in the first place, so this entire controversy could have been avoided.