Homosexual Brainwashing of Public School Children

Here is a podcast from the Chalcedon Foundation, entitled "Interview with Investigative Journalist Lee Duigon on the Homosexual Brainwashing of Public School Children". It is well worth a listen. One really good point that was raised was that people have the right to be homosexuals, but they do not have the right to force their homosexual agenda on others.

Why are traditional relationships and families coming under increasing attack from Western governments, while at the same time, countless millions of tax-payers dollars are being poured into programs designed to normalise homosexuality and so-called "families" with same-sex "parents". Sex-education has as much a right to be a part of state school curriculum as does creationism for instance (that is, none).

This issue of public schools teaching children to embrace and experiment with homosexuality is yet another example of how the US Government and our own government are using state-schools as their chief means of social engineering. (And that's why they hate home-education)

Let me just say as a disclaimer, I do not hate homosexuals.

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Californian Home-Educators Take the Day

Early this year, home-educators in California came under serious attack from the state. However an appeals court in California has ruled that state law does permit homeschooling "as a species of private school education".

In a 3-0 decision the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District reversed its earlier ruling which would have required homeschoolers to be certified teachers in order to homeschool in California.
- HSLDA

Below is an excerpt from the ruling of the three-judge panel,

We will conclude that: (1) California statutes permit home schooling as a species of private school education; and (2) the statutory permission to home school may constitutionally be overridden in order to protect the safety of a child who has been declared dependent. [FN1: We use the terms “home school” and “home schooling” to refer to full-time education in the home by a parent or guardian who does not necessarily possess a teaching credential.]
- HSLDA

One of the attorneys who had argued the case, Chairman of the (US) Home School Legal Defense Association, Michael Farris commented,

"This is a great victory for homeschool freedom. I have never seen such an impressive array of people and organizations coming to the defense of homeschooling. Tens of thousands of California parents teaching over 166,000 homeschooled children are now breathing easier."
- WND

Congratulations to the good families of California who stood shoulder to shoulder against the tide of government oppression. Thanks to the HSLDA for their continued defence of the rights of home-educators in the US.

The Dreamer

I watched The Astronaut Farmer the other night. I can't say that I had expected it would be much good. I haven't seen Billy Bob Thorton in many other films - but he certainly shone in this performance. A driven man, Charles Farmer dreams of one day orbiting the earth in the rocket he is building in his barn - his life's work. The US Government is opposed to Farmer's project - "space-flight is only for us". But as Bruce Willis says in a surprise cameo role "16.2 billion dollars in this year's budget alone", "for what?" returns Farmer, to which Willis responds "for what, who cares for what - for whatever they want..." An excellent point I thought.

Early in the film, Charles Farmer withdraws his children from the local school, and starts up the Farmer Space Program. With lessons in the morning, and work on the rocket in the afternoons and evenings, this is project that the whole family is able to work together in. Needless to say, Farmer's wife is not all that happy when she finds out, however the family sticks together through thick and thin - respectful children and a trusting, long-suffering wife make for a change from the usual "Hollywood-family" drivel.

Definitely worth a watch, though you may find yourself rolling your eyes at times, as scientific or rational limits are ignored - for the sake of the story. The comparitive lack of swearing and the wonderful family relationship make this film a good choice for a Saturday evening with the whole family. I have to say, it was the home-educating and personal-responsibility themes that got me.

Home-Education Under Attack

Melissa Busekros (left), 15 years old, detained in a psychiatric hospital for being home-educated.

"Michael Farris, founder of the Home School Legal Defence Association (HSLDA) has said he believes the German treatment of Christian homeschoolers is the "edge of the night that's coming" for believers.

"Germany is the only Western democracy taking this incredibly hard-line approach, but there are growing clouds on a number of national horizons," Farris told WND.

"The philosophy that the government knows best how to raise children is really becoming a worldwide phenomenon," Farris said. "I think Germany represents the edge of the night that's coming."

from World Net Daily, 17 May 2007

More recently, 12 May 2008, Bob Unruh at World Net Daily looks into the situation in Germany, where the Government is blurring child-abuse and home-education into one. Below are a couple of powerful excerpts - click here to read the entire article.

..."The German Jugendamt system is under increasing scrutiny by the European Union as well as other international organizations because of the sheer numbers of custody cases in proportion to actual substantiated abuse and in relation to the overall population," he said. "For homeschoolers, the Jugendamt represents the tip of the spear in the government's persecution of parents who simply wish to educate their children privately at home – a freedom protected by governments of virtually all free societies."...

...Practical Homeschool Magazine has noted one of the first acts by Hitler when he moved into power was to create the governmental Ministry of Education and give it control of all schools, and school-related issues.

In 1937, the dictator said, "The Youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing."...

...the education authority is in conversation with the affected family in order to look for possibilities to bring the religious convictions of the family into line with the unalterable school attendance requirement."

We in New Zealand need to wake up and realise that everything is not ok. The Government has just passed the Anti-Smacking Law - against the will of 83% of New Zealanders. How much easier will it be for them to outlaw the fundamental and inherent right of parents to educate their own children at home?

Why is the German government scared of home-education? Home-education allows for freedom of thought, and freedom from the indoctrination of the State. The German government is investing a great deal in indoctrinating all young Germans with it's worldview. So, understandably, home-education is a huge spanner in the works for the government, as there is a small but growing group of free-thinkers who believe that it is not the State's job or jurisdiction to indoctrinate educate the country's citizens.

The Harsh Truth About Public Schools

Bruce Shortt has written a book entitled "The Harsh Truth About Public Schools," presents myriad reasons why government institutions are failing America's children and thumbing their noses at parents with a religious worldview. In this, he writes from a biblical perspective, presenting rigorous research about the agenda and effect of government schooling on the nation's young people. I am keen to get my hands on a copy of this book, which was published three years ago. Below are a few excerpts from WorldNetDaily's article on the book.

"Contrary to what many Christians have been led to believe, there is no such thing as a 'neutral' education," Shortt writes. "All education is religious and conveys a worldview, and there is no more important decision that we make as parents than how we educate our children."...

...In the book, Shortt documents the pitfalls of public schools, saying the anti-Christian thrust of the governmental school system produces inevitable results: "moral relativism (no fixed standards), academic dumbing down, far-left programs, near absence of discipline and the persistent but pitiable rationalizations offered by government education professionals."...

...Shortt makes his argument by citing a school district in Texas. "There is no public school district in the country that has more Christians in the community or in the schools than that of Plano, Texas," he said. "In fact, the largest and most powerful church in the state of Texas, Prestonwood Baptist, is located in Plano. Yet, it took a court order to force the Plano schools to allow Christian school children to privately give classmates Christmas gifts that had a Christian message. Moreover, the school district had even prohibited schoolchildren from bringing red and green napkins to the school 'holiday' parties for fear the colors might remind someone of Christmas.

I completely agree with Bruce. It never ceases to amaze me at how desperate parents are to surrender the minds of their children to the State. "They've got to face it at some time in their lives", they tell me. Absolutely, at some stage we all need to let go of the apron-strings. But handing your children to State institutions from the age of three is just wrong. And let's just not talk about the fact that these institutions are entirely tax-payer funded. Brrrrrrr! Amazon.com has got a copy for $11.

Parental Authority and Public Schools

World Net Daily has an article by Monday columnist Vox Day (21 April 08) which looks at the role of the Government in society. An excerpt is below, click here for the entire article.

"...not since the Waco massacre have I been so completely appalled by an American government action. The recent kidnapping of 416 children from their Fundamentalist LDS parents by Texas Child Protective Service agents is a unconscionable abnegation of not only the United States and Texas constitutions, but a rejection of the very meaning of what it is to be an American. For as P.J. O'Rourke rightly declares: "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please."

Contrary to what a disturbing percentage of the voting population appears to believe, "protecting the children" is not a legitimate function of government. The concept appears nowhere in any constitution, and the very idea that the most lethal institution in human history, an institution that has killed more children than any other, can even be used to protect children is inherently oxymoronic. The state does not own the children whose families happen to reside within its boundaries and it does not possess the right to dictate what is and what is not a proper way for a family to raise its children.

Consider this absurd justification for the mass kidnappings offered by Angie Voss, the CPS kidnapper in chief, offered as an explanation for the mysterious preference of the abused women to remain with their supposed abusers instead of availing themselves of government shelters: "This population of women has a difficult time making decisions on their own." If a distaste for decision-making is legitimate grounds for removing children from their mothers, then there won't be a woman in America left with a child to call her own!..."

In another article, (3 March 08), Vox exposes the crumbling public education system in America. He quotes the College of Education at California State University, Sacramento...

There are four main goals that we have and will continue to focus on in the college, which are expressed in the acronym TEACH:
Transformative Leadership
Equity and Social Justice
Action
Collaboration
Human Differences and Diversity

Vox responds,

"Of course, they only teach education, not mathematics, so one shouldn't expect these professional educators to be able to count to five. Perhaps they expect that "one-two-three-many" should suffice for the intellectually lobotomized victims of their trained thought-executioners, after all, we're reliably informed that it's enough for rabbits. A keen observer might also note that nowhere in the concepts expressed by these fiver main goals is anything even remotely related to a traditional education as the average parent understands one to be."

And then a little further down, encourages parents to withdraw their children from such institutions...

There is no point in attempting to fix such a lethally poisoned institution. Let the male teachers withdraw en masse from the system; they are not wanted anyway. Let no child be left behind as the illiterate and innumerate graduate with their meaningless degrees. Let the universities continue to devolve into remedial reading programs for unmarried women. Embrace the failures of the system with enthusiasm, because the sooner complete control is turned over to the cave-dwelling control freaks who seek to run it, the sooner the schools will collapse in ruins. Knowledge will still be accessible to those who seek it.

One cannot fix what is not broken, and the schools are working as they are designed to work. This is not a battle that can be fought and won; it is not a battle that should be fought. Homeschooling is but a stop-gap; in the long term, it is technology that will put an end to the 100-year American experiment with Prussian pragmatism. But until that day, do whatever you must to extricate your children from the system, teach them well and watch with confidence in the future as the professional educators immolate themselves and their system in a self-administered act of faith.

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