"Let them laugh, " said Piotr Maurer, 42, who brought his sister and father-in-law for a visit to the statue this week.

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The state supreme court ruled that the law violates the parents' due process rights and struck down the statue saying the state could not interfer with parents' right to rear their children unless the children were in danger.

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