re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White

There’s something even more fundamental going on here. Rand Paul pointed to it in what we all thought was just stupid phrasing - “The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children…”

The GOP is saying this should be an issue for families to decide because they have a fundamentally different view of children and their rights.

Children have the same basic rights as adults, and it’s the responsibility of parents and government to uphold those rights. That’s why you can choose not to receive a blood transfusion, and die from it, but you can’t refuse it for your child. Similarly, you can choose to get ‘conversion therapy’ for yourself, but you can’t force it on your child.

This all changes if children are NOT individuals with their own rights, but rather the property of their parents, to do with as they please. If children are your property, you have the right to try and force them to be as you want them to be.

They are not even consistent there. They want to be able to teach *all* children their chosen religious and political world view.