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| Date: From: Subject: | 1/28/2013 12:03:45 PM Dee Black--HSLDA Mississippi--Calls Needed to Support Parental Rights Bill |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Mississippi--Calls Needed to Support Parental Rights Bill Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Your calls and emails are needed to help pass Mississippi House Bill 496, which would preserve the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. Why is this law needed? Currently parental rights in Mississippi are based only on court decisions. This case law is subject to change in the future according to which judges decide the cases. By passing a parental rights statute, Mississippi would prevent the erosion of these rights through unfavorable court decisions. House Bill 496 is likely to be heard by the House Judiciary B Committee when it meets this Thursday, January 31, at 9:00 a.m. Members of this committee need to know that the vast majority of Mississippi families want to preserve traditional parental rights. Members of the House Judiciary B Committee need to hear from you today! Action Requested: 1. Please call and/or email as many members of the House Judiciary B Committee as possible with this message or a similar message in your own words: "Please vote for House Bill 496, which would preserve the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. Currently this right is based only on court decisions that are subject to change in the future according to which judges decide the cases." When calling members of the Committee, it is not necessary to identify yourself as a homeschooler. This is broader than just a homeschooling issue. Rep. Andy Gibson, chairman of the Committee, and Rep. Alex Monsour (R-54) are already supportive of HB 496. The other members of the House Judiciary B Committee are: Last names beginning with A-G, please contact: Rep. Kimberly Campbell Buck (D-72) Vice-Chairman (601) 359-4083 kcbuck@house.ms.gov Rep. Willie Bailey (D-49) (601) 359-9311 wbailey@house.ms.gov Rep. Nick Bain (D-2) (601) 359-3338 nbain@house.ms.gov Rep. David Baria (D-122) (601) 359-3133 dbaria@house.ms.gov Rep. Charles Busby (R-111) (601) 359-3373 cbusby@house.ms.gov Rep. Gary Chism (R-37) (601) 359-3364 gchism@house.ms.gov Rep. Dennis DeBar (R-105) (601) 359-2436 ddebar@house.ms.gov Rep. Casey Eure (R-116) (601) 359-9466 ceure@house.ms.gov Last names beginning with H-O, please contact: Rep. Jeffrey S. Guice (R-114) (601) 576-2508 jguice@house.ms.gov Rep. Joey Hood (R-35) (601) 359-3339 jhood@house.ms.gov Rep. Kevin Horan (D-24) (601) 359-2438 khoran@house.ms.gov Rep. Timmy Ladner (R-93) (601) 359-2438 tladner@house.ms.gov Rep. Sherra Hillman Lane (D-86) (601) 359-9485 slane@house.ms.gov Rep. Sam C. Mims, V (R-97) (601) 359-3320 smims@house.ms.gov Rep. John L. Moore (R-60) (601) 359-3330 jmoore@house.ms.gov Rep. Brad A. Oberhousen (D-73) (601) 359-2439 boberhousen@house.ms.gov Last names beginning with P-Z, please contact: Rep. Ferr Smith (D-27) (601) 359-9395 fsmith@house.ms.gov Rep. Greg Snowden (R-83) (601) 359-3304 greg@gregsnowden.com Rep. Tommy Taylor (R-28) ttaylor@house.ms.gov Rep. Joseph L. Warren (D-90) (601) 359-3014 jwarren@house.ms.gov Rep. Jason White (R-48) (601) 359-2861 jwhite@house.ms.gov Rep. Adrienne Wooten (D-71) (601) 359-2433 awooten@house.ms.gov Rep. Henry Zuber, III (R-113) (601) 359-3328 hzuber@house.ms.gov 2. Please forward this email to every family you know who is not a member of HSLDA and urge them to contact members of the Committee. Background: The application of strict scrutiny legal protection to the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is well established in nearly every state. But this standard is established through jurisprudence, and not as a matter of legislative law. Where state level jurisprudence has established this strict scrutiny protection, it is almost always based, in whole or in part, on federal Supreme Court precedent. This fundamental right, first articulated in Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923), has been more fully expounded through Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925), Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158 (1944) and a stream of other cases. But this standard is beginning to erode at the U.S. Supreme Court. The Troxel v. Granville decision, 530 U.S. 57 (2000), implicated this fundamental right, yet without application of the high strict scrutiny standard--the first time the two terms have been divorced in American jurisprudence. Passing a state statute to define parental rights and legislate for the application of strict scrutiny protection to this right will: > Establish fundamental parental rights and the application of strict scrutiny protection as a matter of statutory law; > Prevent the erosion of this right now occurring at the federal level from poisoning the jurisprudence of the state courts; > Protect parents from the overreach of government while preserving the state's interest in protecting children from abuse or neglect; > Protect the right of children in healthy homes to be raised and guided by parents who love them, not by bureaucrats or judges who do not know them. > NOT create any new rights or standards, but simply take the right currently protected under case law and place it under the shelter of statutory law, safe from possible erosion in the courts. View the text of this bill > > http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=17000 Please call or email today! Very truly yours, Dewitt T. 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