Do public school pupils and their parents still enjoy the right not to have their sexual morals and mores dictated by the public-school apparatus? Or are all children, in effect, governed by a kind of state establishment of antireligion, whose dogmas of “sex education” have become part and parcel of our system of compulsory public instruction? Those questions are raised by two court cases in Michigan at present.
The first case has been filed in a federal district court against Michigan’s superintendent of public instruction. It is brought by two Michigan zealots for public instruction about birth control and sex, represented by a lawyer from the Population Law Center of San Francisco. This suit argues that a Michigan statute of 1949 is unconstitutional because it prohibits instruction about birth control in Michigan’s public schools; also the suit challenges a later Michigan statute by the provisions of which parents may withdraw their offspring from classes where sex education is taught.
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