Michael Farris on "Valley Faith in Action"

A very familiar name in the home school community is Mike Farris. Friday he will join Valley Forum leader Dean Welty's "Valley Faith in Action" program to discuss "UN Pits Children's 'Rights' vs. Parents' Rights & U.S. Law." The program will be repeated Sunday, and will be shown on WAZT-TV.

Who is responsible for raising and educating your children? When you decide one thing, but your child wants something else, who makes the final decision? Can the UN do it for you? What happens when UN treaties, U.S. laws, and your parental beliefs collide? Who wins? And why does it matter to us anyway?

Our guest is Dr. Michael Farris, Founder, former President, and now Chancellor and Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College. Dr. Farris is also President of Parental Rights.org and chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association which he founded in 1983 and that now includes over 80,000 families. He has been recognized by Education Week as one of the Top 100 Faces of Education in the 20th Century.

We’ll ask Dr. Farris why, as an educator and a parent, he is so concerned about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child that the U.S. may try to ratify later this year. How could it possibly affect us and our ability to raise our children as we choose? And if it is such a threat both to parents and to U.S. sovereignty, what can we do to ensure that it does not get ratified?

If you would like additional information on the UNCRC and Dr. Farris’s objections to it, click here. You can also ask Cong. Bob Goodlatte to join 72 other members of Congress in support of a Parental Rights Amendment that would help protect parental rights against treaties like the UNCRC.

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“Valley Faith in Action” airs at 8:00 p.m. on Friday and again at 8:30 p.m. Sunday on WAZT-TV, which is Comcast Cable Channel 14 in the Harrisonburg area (the channel may be different in your area). It will also air on Monday at 8:30 a.m., and Wednesday midnight. If you miss those, you can watch it later online.