A Massive Transfer of Power Over Children, From Parents to Governments

Parents’ Statutory “Bill of Rights”

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”  —Ayn Rand

“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.” —Martin Luther

On February 2 of this year (2023), the North Carolina Senate passed SB 49, which bears the deceptive title of “Parents’ Bill of Rights”.  It transfers massive open-ended powers over children to the federal and state governments and to the “governing body” of the school.  The Parents are “granted” enumerated rights[1] and every such right is qualified by exceptions which may be carved out at any time by the various levels of governments.  This is a profoundly evil piece of work; and if it passes the House, Parents in North Carolina with minor children would be wise to consider leaving the State and taking their children with them.

Civilizations – and Nations – arise on one belief system – and collapse on another.  Let us begin by looking at the belief system embraced during our Founding Era respecting the Origin of Rights and the purpose of government.  Then we will look at the belief system embraced from the time the first Colonists settled our Country respecting the parent child relation until the rise, during the 1840s, of public education.[2]  Then I will show you the belief system respecting “Rights” which is being pushed on us by those who seek to strip us of our God given rights.

1. Our Founding Principles respecting the Origin of Rights and the purpose of government

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