Parental Rights Returning to Congress
This week, the Parental Rights Foundation team is on Capitol Hill, working to reintroduce the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (PRA). We’re visiting congressional offices representing Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia, and pointing key congress members to our new lead sponsor in the U.S. House, Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL).
Please note that we are not requesting any action on your part at this time. Although we plan to make a push for original cosponsors before the PRA is reintroduced, we anticipate that effort is still at least a few weeks off.
(That said, if you happen to speak to your congressman in the next couple of weeks, you could invite them to reach out to Worth Loving in Rep. Mary Miller’s office to become an original cosponsor.)
We are also working on a lead sponsor in the Senate, but that process has been slowed by other Senate obligations; with budget bills, confirmation hearings, and other such responsibilities, there simply hasn’t been an opportunity for other measures to get off the ground, despite our best efforts.
Hopefully, our visits to the House this week will help change that. As we get the PRA moving in the House, we hope to see a response to that move in the Senate as well.
That’s why our team is on Capitol Hill today, including board members Jim and Patti Sullivan from Florida and our local team members, Elisabeth K., Elizabeth S., and myself.
We also plan to attend an event Wednesday afternoon celebrating 100 years of the Supreme Court’s Pierce v. Society of Sisters decision, which was published on June 1, 1925. This decision gave us the now-famous line, “The child is not the mere creature of the State,” and with it the assurance that government cannot simply shape all children into who the government wants them to be. Rather, parents “have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare them for additional obligations.”
This case was the subject of our recent 2-part series at The EPPiC Broadcast, including our “left panel” on May 13 and our “right panel” on May 20. You can find both on our podcast page here.
All told, this week is about building relationships and planting seeds that will bring about a vital reintroduction of the Parental Rights Amendment in the 119th Congress. Once that happens, we will work toward subcommittee hearings to further the discussion of your parental rights and how best to protect your children at the national constitutional level.
Thank you for standing with us. Your partnership makes visits like this possible.