As in the Second Circuit Vitsaxaki and Third Circuit Heaps cases, this case involves a public school policy facilitating the sex transition of a minor child—not only without parental consent, but in direct defiance of the parent’s instructions to school officials. The Supreme Court has finally taken up this critical current issue. Its recent rulings in Skrmetti and Mahmoud will help the Court reach the correct result. Unlike Mahmoud and some of the other cases, the parental objections raised in Foote are not religious in nature, but NCVI argues that parental rights are nevertheless fundamental and should be upheld.
“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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