On Monday, two very different videos went viral. The first featured an 11-year-old boy, Tyler, from Conyers, Georgia. Tyler was 18 months old when his stepfather, Don Gouse, entered his life. The video shows Tyler approaching his stepfather and reading a letter. When I was one and a half years old, something happened to me. God sent me a real dad. Dad, I've been your child in love since I can remember, but I want to be your son legally. Will you please adopt me? Don says yes, at which point he embraces the crying boy in a bear hug. It's nearly impossible not to have the odd speck of dust in your eye while you watch it. Meanwhile, another heart-rending video made the rounds. This was video of Chris Garde and Connie Yates, parents of infant Charlie Guard, announcing they would no longer attempt to remove Charlie from the UK for UK for treatment. Charlie suffers from a rare degenerative disease that ends in death.

The Great Ormond Street Hospital refused to release him to his parents so they could fly

him to the United States on his own dime to seek experimental treatment instead deciding

that little Charlie should die with dignity.

Chris stated, we knew our son, which is why we continued fighting. Charlie has been left with his illness to deteriorate devastatingly to the point of no return. Juxtaposing these two videos is very awkward for the political left. It's awkward because while the left likes to claim that it stands with parents, it actually promulgates policies antithetical to parental control of their children. The left will pay lip service to motherhood and apple pie, but for mother gives her child too much apple pie, it'll call the state to do something about it. That's what happened with Charlie Gard. The question is not, whether you agree with Gart's parents or not, perhaps the doctors were right, and his parents were grasping at straws in a desperate attempt to ignore the agonizing reality of the situation. The question is whether parents have the right

to make such decisions to begin with. We're not talking about abusive parents who physically

harm their kids. We're not talking about a child endangerment scenario. We're talking about

parents choosing a culture of life with which the prevailing leftist sentiment disagrees.

There is no objective standard suggesting that so-called death with dignity should overcome

the value of preservation

of life. That is a subjective decision at best. Yet the hospital, the UK government and the EU,

decided they knew better than Charlie Gard's parents. They don't. The judges who decided Charlie

Guard's fate have never met Charlie Gard. They never spent hours crying by his bedside or rubbing

the fuss on his head. Had Charlie been healthy, they wouldn't have been aware of him at all. Yet they know better than Charlie's parents. What ought to happen? The evaluation of parenting on the left

isn't restricted to life and death decisions. It reaches down to the basics of parenting. What value

system should be taught to kids? Last month, the British government threatened to shut down an

Orthodox Jewish girls school for the crime of not teaching children the prevailing LGBT agenda.

Inspectors said that the failure to teach children about leftist views of sexual orientation, quote,

restricts pupil's spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development, and does not promote equality of opportunity in ways that take account of differing lifestyles, unquote.

This despite the fact that the inspectors openly acknowledge that the school's culture is

clearly focused on teaching pupils to respect everybody regardless of beliefs and lifestyle.

In Ontario, Canada, legislators recently passed a regulation that would allow the government

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