Abstract
The attack on parental rights is gaining ground as the culture ramps up its attack on the Creator's role in our lives. I was a very young lawyer when I got the call one Monday morning. Child Protective Services had seized a couple's son on the previous Friday night. Island County (Washington State) Court would hold a hearing the following day. The Court had given no advance notice. It was an emergency seizure, they believed. Courts reserve such ad hoc removals for the most serious situations, where the child is in such imminent danger that there is no time for a regular hearing. The allegations were breathtaking-but not in the sense that the parents had done something serious. The charge? The parents took their son to church too much. They went Sunday morning, Sunday evening, and Wednesday night.