California Democrats are now working on a bill that would allow the state to swoop in and remove kids from homes if parents aren’t sufficiently left-wing enough to suit the state.
Worse, the idea is to beat down a parents’ door and take the kids away without notice or explanation (until later) if those parents are not woke enough.
So, imagine… you are sitting with your children reading a Bible passage, or talking about the U.S. Constitution, or discussing the American founders, and the state’s jackbooted thugs break down your door and take away your children at gun point without explaining why they are doing it.
This could easily happen with California’s new AB 665.
Per the Washington Examiner:
The bill, AB 665, “would allow children as young as 12 years old to consent to being placed into state-funded group homes without parental permission or knowledge,” according to an analysis from California Family Council. The legislation gives a government bureaucrat the ability to keep a mother and father out of the equation based on his or her own personal decision.
“The mental health treatment or counseling of a minor authorized by this section shall include involvement of the minor’s parent or guardian unless the professional person who is treating or counseling the minor, after consulting with the minor, determines that the involvement would be inappropriate,” the bill currently states.
It removes the current, commonsense law that allows for children to opt into mental health services without parental consent only if they are being abused, meaning that children of healthy parents could now “consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis, or to residential shelter services.”
The bill leaves no room for religious expression or mental health issues other than mental health determinations that suit their political agenda.
This law is unnecessary — because the state already has plenty of laws to protect children for real abuse — and only serves to bolster the transgender, LGBTQ, and radical left-wing political agenda. It does not protect children at all and is a flagrant violation of the rights of parents.
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