This from a -court-…

The following quote was taken from http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/266960, which unfortunately did not cite their references. The judiciary, too, oversteps their powers.

“The child is a citizen of the State. While he “belongs” to his parents, he belongs also to his State. Their rights in him entail many duties. Likewise, the fact the child belongs to the State imposes upon the State many duties. Chief among them is the duty to protect his right to live and to grow up with a sound mind in a sound body . . . .
When a religious doctrine espoused by the parents threatens to defeat or curtail such a right of their child, the State’s duty to step in and preserve the child’s right is immediately operative.”

Let me state in clear and certain terms and with absolute conviction that I DO NOT belong to the “State”, I HAVE NOT in the past belonged to the “State”, and I WILL NOT at any time belong to the “State.” For, what is the state but a collective of men? My decisions are not the decisions of other men, nor should their decisions be thrust upon me to be offered as my own.

The “State” has no right to nurture, only to protect. For in its nurturing, the “State” has shown a heavy interest in perpetuating its own values and furthering its own goals. There are ways these things can be done, can be improved, but they are up to man, not the “State”.