House Scolds Court on Sex Survey Suit Toss

AP ^ | 11/16/5 | ERICA WERNER

[SmithL]

WASHINGTON -- The House voted Wednesday to scold a San Francisco-based federal appeals court for dismissing a lawsuit by parents outraged that a school district surveyed their young children about sex.

Over objections from some Democrats who complained Republicans were seeking the kind of judicial activism the GOP normally denounces, lawmakers voted 320 to 91 for a resolution that said the decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals "deplorably infringed on parental rights."

The resolution says the 9th Circuit should rehear Fields v. Palmdale School District. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel earlier this month said that "parents are possessed of no constitutional right to prevent the public schools from providing information" on sex to students.

"What we are speaking to here is a case in which a court, I believe, far overreached the issues involved in a case and declared parenting unconstitutional," said Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., who offered the resolution.

[Calpernia]

"I think post 91 has a little more on what OldFriend said about the 91 representatives."

Was suppose to be:

I think post 19 has a little more on what OldFriend said about the 91 representatives.

[Calpernia]

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[little jeremiah]

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