The Ninth Circus Court of Appeals ruled this week that parents do not have a 'fundamental right' to control their children's sexual education.

A federal appeals court Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by parents who were outraged that a school district had surveyed their elementary school-age children about sex.

The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the parents' claim that they have the exclusive right to tell their children about sex.

In upholding a lower court ruling against the parents, Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt said "no such specific right can be found in the deep roots of the nation's history and tradition or implied in the concept of ordered liberty."

And isn't that an interesting development. Next time I'm on the Left Coast I think I'll swing by some schools and start surveying the kiddies about sex. I dare not try that in Virginia, where it's "implied in the concept of ordered liberty" that a parent could beat me down with a baseball bat.

Let's talk about sex, baby
Let's talk about you and me
Let's talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let's talk about sex