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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/10/2012 1:57:45 PM Home School Legal Defense Association HSLDA--Action Needed to Support Parental Rights |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== HSLDA--Action Needed to Support Parental Rights Dear HSLDA Members and Friends, The Wyoming legislature has an opportunity to support parental rights by passing HJ 0003. Parental rights are an important foundation to defending our homeschooling freedoms. Supreme Court cases and international treaties continue to pose a serious threat to parental rights in the United States. Wyoming citizens have the opportunity to voice their support for an amendment to the federal Constitution protecting parental rights. HJ 0003 is a joint resolution that would call on the Congress of the United States to pass a parental rights amendment and send it to the states for ratification. Five other states have already passed a similar resolution. However, because this year is a budget year for the Wyoming legislature a two-thirds vote of the legislature is needed to consider HJ 0003. Therefore we need your help today. ACTION REQUESTED Please email and call your senator and representative asking them to send HJ0003 to committee so that the bill can receive an up-or-down vote in the Wyoming legislature. Please feel free to give them the following message in your own words: "After Sponsor Representative Botten reads HJ0003, please vote to allow HJ0003 to be sent to committee. It is important that Wyoming make a statement supporting parental rights." You can find out who your House representative is by clicking: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=13721 You can find who your senator is by clicking: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=13722 Because this bill applies to all Wyoming parents, it is not necessary to identify yourself as a homeschooler. HSLDA is teaming up with Parentalrights.org and WyWatch to track HJ0003 and ensure its passage. BACKGROUND For more details on this, read the text of the bill here: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=13723 The right to homeschool is based on parents' fundamental right to direct the education and upbringing of their children, and HSLDA has been in the center of the fight to preserve these rights for more than 25 years. While many courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have affirmed parental rights in a variety of circumstances, some recent decisions have given reason for concern that recognition of parental responsibility and authority is eroding. Consequently, there is a movement underway to amend the U.S. Constitution to protect this fundamental right. To learn more visit www.ParentalRights.org. Without your support we could not stand for freedom in Wyoming! If you or someone you know is not a member of HSLDA, will you consider taking a moment today to join or recommend us and support our work defending individual families threatened by government officials and protecting homeschooling freedom for all? Join now at: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=13431 Very truly yours, Michael P. Donnelly, Esq. HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Who's knocking on your door? When a social service worker arrives at your door, tension can run high. Wouldn't it be nice to get your lawyer on the phone, providing you with immediate step-by-step guidance? More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1099 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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