Solomon or the State?

Remember the story of Solomon. Solomon rightly read that the actual mother, and not the pretend mother was the one that would truly demonstrate a love for her about-to-be-divided child. I would always bet on blood.

I am not saying such love is always perfect or that parents never err, even cruelly err. But there is great peril in giving parental authority to the State. Once this religious role is usurped where does it end? What is to prevent the State, once it has such authority, to consider your intolerant teaching not in keeping with the State's tolerant agenda? No, I would risk always being a mother's child rather than the State's abstraction.