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NH Court Upholds Order to Send Homeschooled Girl to Public School

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Christian Post: John Anthony Simmons, the Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney in the case, expressed appreciation that the Supreme Court ?limited its decision to the facts of this case." . . . ?Parents have a fundamental right to make educational choices for their children. Courts can settle disputes, but they cannot legitimately order a child into a government-run school on the basis that her religious views need to be mixed with other views. That?s precisely what the lower court admitted it was doing,? he said. ?The lower court held the Christian faith of this mother and daughter against them. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court bypassed this issue and wrote this off as a ?parent versus parent? issue without recognizing the very real underlying threat to religious liberty.?

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 17, 2011 (boomark / email).