North Carolina, Wake County, Judge Ned W. Mangum is the most striking example of a blatant, liberal, agenda-driven bench-legislating, law-ignoring, anti-traditional values and morals “justice” to come to public attention in a long while.

Judge Mangum has decided, he says, not for religious or ideological motivations, but purely for personal reasons that three homeschooled children whose parents are in a divorce battle due to the father’s admitted adultery, must be registered and sent off to government school.

Mangum says the children will have a “more well-rounded education,” there. He wants the public school to “challenge the ideas” taught to them by their mother. He offers that he has “no problem with homeschooling. I said public schooling would be a good complement.” But his actions undermine his words.

The judge issued the order despite the fact that these children, through evaluation and testing showed they were at or beyond their grade level by several years. And despite the fact that the father complimented his legitimate wife for the record on her homeschooling success, even admitting she is a “loving” and “nurturing” mother.

Mangum flimsily excused his verdict by saying that because the father no longer supports the homeschooling, therefore it has “accomplished its purposes. It now was appropriate to have them back in public school.”

Hard evidence is not the only thing the judge has the arrogance to fly in the face of; the most important thing is that he is stripping the right of the parent to decide how and who will educate the children.

Mangum contemptuously referred to his guiding principle in the matter as being in “the best interest of the minor children,” but still supplanted his own judgment in place of the mother’s.

Hubris -- proof of excessive pride and the commission of outrageous treatment toward others -- used to be a sin and a crime in ancient Greece. It still should be here in America.

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