NH court affirms ruling ordering girl to attend public school, says case not about religionThe Republic: “The New Hampshire Supreme Court says a lower court acted appropriately in ordering an 11-year-old girl to attend public school after her father claimed his ex-wife’s strict Christian teachings were socially isolating the child.” ______ ADF response to NH Supreme Court decision in homeschooler case ADF-allied attorney John Anthony Simmons: “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. The lower court held the Christian faith of this mother and daughter against them. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court ignored this issue and wrote this off as a ‘parent versus parent’ issue without recognizing the very real underlying threat to religious liberty.” Full news release forthcoming at http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/4500. Opinion available at www.telladf.org/userdocs/KurowskiOpinion.pdf. ADF Media Relations |