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Originally Posted by GGG
Here is where you have to be very careful. I for one believe parental rights trump most other rights. If someone wants to raise there kid to be racist they should be allowed to. If you start regulating parental athority you very quickly eliminate any kind of freedoms we have in society.
Your position seems to be that you would eliminate or severly restrict freedom of speech in order to impose state approved parenting messages.
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Not really: you can teach your kids that evolution is a lie (which I agree is necessary) but where there's a real problem is where you prevent the school system from teaching it to them. Freedom of speech does not imply denial of access to competing ideas. Competition of ideas is why you need freedom of speech in the first place.
Our society already recognizes that children have some rights that superceed some parental rights. We just need to go a bit further.