Judging Freedom - Parents Right to Know up against Woke Agendas

Episode Date: March 31, 2022

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clashes between the rights of parents and the rights of school boards and the intervention of state legislatures with respect to children who are LGBTQ or even children who are transgendered. This is a virgin area of the law. There's no litigation on it yet, so there's no judicial resolution of it yet. I'm profoundly offended by school boards who want to keep the parents entirely out of it. I'm also offended by state legislatures that want to tell teachers what to say. So we have a bunch of competing interests here. I think the idea of butchering a human body to change gender is reprehensible and immoral, but it's lawful. And as long as the child is examined by a psychiatrist to make sure

this is a deeply held view and the parents' consent, these surgeries take place all the time today. I wish they didn't take place on children. I wish these things happened when people were older and more mature because this is obviously a decision that cannot be reversed. Those children suffering from some identity crisis and choosing to resolve the identity crisis with surgery that cannot be reversed are entitled to the warmth of our hearts, and they have the same rights as everybody else. They should not be isolated as freaks by the school board or by the state legislature. They already have

a self-awareness of being different. To treat them differently, to treat them as if they're heretics, to treat them as if they're something that doesn't exist except within themselves is going to compound the problem. On the other hand, parents have the right to know what's going on in school. If Johnny says he's gay or Susie says she likes girls, the parents should be aware of that. That is not something that should be kept from them because the principal impetus and the principal authority in raising children in America is the parents. It's not the government. The school board is the government. The legislature is the government. Supreme Court has made this very clear in a case

called Wisconsin versus Yoder. That's the leading case that allows homeschooling. Prior to Wisconsin v. Yoder, which is around 1970, there was no such thing as homeschooling, and every state in the union required that all children attend school until they were 16 years old. Now that's no longer necessary because the Supreme Court has recognized what is a natural right, a right coming from our humanity, and that is the right of parents to raise children as they see fit as long as the manner in which they're being raised is not harmful to the children. The flip side of this is that the school board can't treat children in a way that is harmful to parental authority by hiding things from parental authority, nor should the legislature put words in the mouths of teachers or deny them

the opportunity to use words. The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of speech. We're not talking about a Catholic school or a private school. We're talking about a public school. The legislature can no more tell public school teachers what they can say and how they can teach than they can tell them what to say on a soapbox on a sidewalk on the corner of 6th Avenue and 47th Street. It happens to be where Fox is located.

A very busy street corner, and they're off on their characters, literally on soapboxes out there, expressing opinions on everything under the sun. I mean, this is a very, very important matter. I got to say hello to people, because someone's saying hello from Ohio. Good morning. Someone's saying hello from Canada.

Good morning. I hope freedom has returned in Canada. We still have freedom in Ohio as far as I know. professional educators to indoctrinate children. The right wants to tell teachers how to teach. There's got to be some sort of a balance. Look, if it were up to me, we wouldn't have public schools. Government shouldn't be in the business of educating because that education implies some sort of indoctrination. We were all indoctrinated to believe that Abraham Lincoln was a saint, whereas in reality slaughtered 750,000 people, the first head of state in the history of the world, to direct his troops to kill civilians. And they were civilians of his own country. Another argument for another time. You weren't taught that in public school.

If there were no public school, there'd be a marketplace for private schools. And if you'd be able to afford it, because you wouldn't be paying taxes for public schools. If your kids want to become airplane mechanics, they'd go to one school system. If they want to go to Princeton or Yale, they'd go to another school system. You get the picture. And the school systems, the private schools would compete with each other. And competition improves the product and lowers the cost. But we don't have that. We have school, education, government schools. They shouldn't be called public schools. They should be called what they are, government schools. The government shouldn't indoctrinate,

but the government cannot interfere with the rights of parents. That's what keeps popping up. It's been popping up in Florida and it's popping up in Wisconsin. In Florida, the so-called don't say gay and the statute doesn't really say don't say gay. It just says do not discuss or teach about gender identity to children under five. If I had a child under five, I would want to teach the child about gender identity, and I probably wouldn't even mention it to a child under five. Wisconsin, of course, school boards are instructing teachers that if they learn

something intimate about the child, I want to have an abortion. I'm in love. I'm a girl and I'm in love with my girlfriend. I'm a boy and I'm in love with my boyfriend that they're not supposed to tell the parents. They should tell the parents because the parents need to know what's going on in their children's head to repeat. Ultimately, it is the parents who are responsible for raising children. The government cannot interfere with that. The government does not know best. The government is providing a service at which it stinks, the government school system. But the least the government can do is tell the parents what they need to know and not interfere with the manner in which they raise their children. All this from somebody who's not married and doesn't have children, but always stands up for the sovereignty of the individual

against the heavy hand of the state. Judge Napolitano, judging freedom.