The NC Values Institute filed an emergency amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Mirabelli v. Bonta, urging the Court to lift a Ninth Circuit stay and stop California’s Parental Exclusion Policy, which allows public schools to secretly “socially transition” children without parental knowledge or consent. The brief argues that this policy is a direct assault on parents’ fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children, forcing schools to deceive families and placing teachers and students under mandates that compel ideological speech. NCVI warns that the policy turns family authority on its head, elevating state power and a child’s unilateral declaration over parental involvement, while also violating constitutional protections of conscience, religion, and free expression. The Institute calls on the Court to intervene immediately to halt ongoing harm to families and reaffirm that parents—not government bureaucracies—are the primary guardians of their children’s well-being.
Mirabelli v. Bonta Amicus Brief
January 22, 2026
Amicus Brief • Family • Freedom • Issues • Life
“As a society, we need to cherish the institutions that bring us into existence, and give our existence meaning. I believe human flourishing starts with the heart and the home.”
“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
“… if we descend still lower and go down to families, it is true even there that the village is composed of families and not that the families are cut from the village. The family was there first, and only then could the village take shape. Finally, if the village vanished there would still be families; but if the households were to disband the village too would come to an end.”
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