Achtung Cousin Don

As a new Dad, you should be aware that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled! Ruled, I tell you! Check it out.

On Wednesday, a three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court dismissed the appeal filed by parents who had sued the Palmdale School District over a sex survey handed to students in the 1st, 3rd and 5th grades. The court, in upholding a lower court decision, ruled that "there is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children."

Got that, Don? Your budding linebacker is subject to sexual propaganda, starting no later than the 1st grade, from all sorts of venues, and you have no fundamental right to influence it. But the Ninth Circus wasn't done.

Furthermore, parents have no fundamental right to influence their children on sexual matters "in accordance with their personal and religious values and beliefs," the court stated.

Got that, Don? If the State decides your "influence" on matters of values or religion is inappropriate, you are SOL, buddy.

Sensibly, the Republicans are trying to end this nonsense by breaking up this liberal cabal. The Democrats, big surprise, will have none of it.

"On the merits, there is no justification for the Republican court splitting proposal. It is simply a partisan exercise to appease the radical right," Pelosi said in a press release.

To Nancy Pelosi, if you think you have a right (I would call it an obligation) to influence your children on matters of sex or religion, you are a member of the "radical right." And the Democrats wonder why they lose the "values" vote.