Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Christian home-schooler Michael Farris made parental rights a GOP issue - The Washington Post

"Everyone should be aware of Michael Farris and his influence on the Christian right," said R.L. Stollar, a children's rights advocate who was home-schooled and has long warned of the conservative home-schooling movement's political goals. "To Farris's credit, he is really good at what he does. He is really good at taking these more extreme positions and presenting them as if they are something that would just be based on common sense."

Farris, 72, has a long track record of taking stands on the right. He argued in 2003 for the authority of states to criminalize gay sex, a position the Supreme Court rejected in the landmark case Lawrence v. Texas. He aided the legal effort to keep Trump in power by overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election and has urged what he calls a "Joshua Generation" of young home-schoolers to "engage wholeheartedly in the battle to take the land," expanding the political and cultural power of conservative Christians…

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