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verityman #fundie idahopress.com

[In the comments for a poll on whether the "faith healer" exemption for criminal charges resulting from a child's death in Idaho should be lifted.]

Two families, the Romeikes and the Wunderliches, fled Germany for the United States because the government was to take away their children because they were homeschooling. That is illegal in Germany. The government knows better than parents what is best for children.
California has a similar law saying parents of children in public (government) schools have no control over what is taught their children. Parents have no ability to opt their children out of teaching they believe is wrong.
That is the problem with passing this law. Parents love their children and take the best care of them they know. If we say the government knows better, we are opening the door to further encroachments on parental rights.
I heard from one person who said our attorney general told him parents have no rights. Legally that is true. That is why many of us want a parental rights amend- ment in our Constitution. The point is, if you let the camel's nose into the tent, eventually the entire camel will be in. Another expression is if you give an inch they will take a mile. That has happened in the homosexual area. Let's not let that happen to parental rights.

Walt Bayes #wingnut #homophobia idahopress.com

Homosexual and heterosexual students should have separate bathrooms and showers in Idaho schools, a Wilder Republican running for the Idaho House said Friday.

...The topic came up after Bayes mentioned it in his campaign literature, where he wrote, “It is absolutely wrong to force any student to share the same bathrooms and showers with homosexual teachers or students.”

...Bayes said that when he was 18 it would have been “an absolute catastrophe” for him to have showered with girls. But he said he wasn’t completely sure how the issue of homosexuals and heterosexuals using the same facilities in schools should be addressed.

“I don’t really have an answer for it, but we’re going to have to do something if there’s going to be a considerable number of our people who are going to go that way (homosexual),” Bayes said. “We’re going to (need) some kind of separation.”