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This is the current level of progressive, Marxist, leftist thinking. They are serious. They mean it. God has something else in mind. I am going with God.

In the Virginia gubernatorial debate on Tuesday evening, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe insisted that parents should have no role in directing the education of their children and doubled down in a subsequent media interview.

McAuliffe, a former governor of Virginia and longtime Democratic operative, issued this pronouncement after being asked whether “protections for transgender students” should be determined at the state level or in each school district.

Responding first to the question, Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin raised the issue of “school systems refusing to engage with parents,” offering the recent example of parents in Fairfax County, Va., who were unaware of sexually explicit content in books available to children at the school library.

“You believe school systems should tell children what to do,” Youngkin said to McAuliffe. “I believe parents should be in charge of their kids’ education.”

In response, McAuliffe said, “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions,” adding, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

Here is what God thinks. God decrees parents should educate their children.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise

(Deut. 6:4–7)

And from Proverbs:

  • Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching (Prov. 1:8).
  • Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight (4:1).
  • My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching (6:20).
  • A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother (10:1).
  • A wise son hears his father’s instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke (13:1).
  • A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother (15:20).
  • Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old (23:22).
  • The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him (31:1).

Source: Terry McAuliffe: No Role for Parents in School Curriculum