If I am not mistaken, this resolution seems to mirror the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993.
In the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling by Chief Justice Roberts (546 U.S. 2006) the Court emphasized that Congress had constructed "a workable test for striking sensible balances between religious liberty and competing prior governmental interests" (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.)
Multiple prong tests have been legally constructed to determine whether an interest is a compelling governmental interest, the defenses, as well as the remedies throughout the states, in respect to RFRA. The same may be applied to "Parental Freedom Restoration Act of 2008 (PRFA), as I have coined it".
My only concern is I would like the text and analysis to be made public.
If the tenants of this resolution are based upon RFRA, then the structural integrity of this institution called "the family" shall be conserved. Parenting, in whatever form it is recognized, has gone through an intellectual metamorphosis to become an established constitutional right as a religious freedom.
Simply put, parenting is now a First Amendment Right.
Representative Stahl, I pray this national contagion to be expeditiously diffused.
Godspeed,
Beverly Tran
The people have the right to peaceably assemble, to consult for the common good, to instruct their representatives and to petition the government for redress of greivance.
Declaration of Rights, Article I, Section 3, Constitution of Michigan 1963