Conservatives Outraged Over Ruling on Elementary School Sex Survey
Nov. 15 – A conservative legal group plans to fight a California appeals court ruling that says parents had no power to prevent an elementary school from conducting a sex survey of their children.
The Liberty Counsel, based in Orlando, Fla., will represent parents who objected to a survey that officials in the Palmdale, Calif., school district said was designed to measure “children’s exposure to early trauma.” It included questions about sexual topics such as “thinking about sex” and “touching my private parts too much.” Writing for a three-judge panel in a Nov. 2 decision, Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said: ”... There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children.”Mathew D. Staver, president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel, said Monday (Nov. 7) that he plans to ask the full court to set aside the decision.
“The parents feel like their children were mentally raped when they were subjected to embarrassing and inappropriate sexually explicit materials,” he said. “Americans will be stunned to learn that parental rights stop at the threshold of the school door.”
The ruling has been a major topic of conversation for conservative Christian leaders across the country.
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