Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

Should homeschoolers be concerned that the Constitution contains no explicit protection for parental rights? Join Mike Farris as he provides insight into this question, today on Home School Heartbeat.

Michael Farris:
A friend in Congress recently told me that if the issue of protecting traditional marriage had been brought to the floor of the House 15 or 20 years ago, a constitutional amendment would have passed easily. Now, it's far more difficult for such an amendment to pass.

The absence of explicit constitutional protection for traditional marriage has proven deadly in the battle over homosexual marriage. As homeschoolers, we must face the fact that the right of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their children is not explicitly written in the text of the Constitution either. If we don't want to lose our parental rights, we must learn from the experience of the fight for marriage protection.

The threats to parental rights are real and growing. Now is the time to put parents' rights into black and white. Just as pro-family advocates should have done years ago to protect marriage, we must adopt an explicit constitutional amendment.

This won't be easy, but it is the fight of our generation. We may be falsely accused of wanting to protect child abuse. We may be falsely accused of meddling unnecessarily with the sacred Constitution. But we can't be daunted by such duplicity. If we wait until these threats fully mature, we may have waited too long.

I'm Mike Farris.