School Liberator, May 20, 02--Home Education Revolution

The School Liberator | 5/20/2002 | Cathy Cuthbert

[rwjst4]

Here's part of a newsletter I received in the mail yesterday:

May 20, 2002 Vol. 2, No. 9
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T H E S C H O O L L I B E R A T O R
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* The Alliance on the Gay Agenda * * Parental Authority * Iatrogenic Social Policy * * No Career Plans, No Cap and Gown * The Locker Police * * Home Education Revolution *

--> From your Editor: Every once in a while we receive an email questioning our stance on the gay agenda in the public schools. One such message came last week, saying in part: "If all this you're sending me is homophobic then you can stop sending it to me."

--> I'd like to answer here for everyone's benefit. The message of the Alliance is very clear: school and state must be separated because the state uses schools to undermine parents. One of the ways that government schools do this is through indoctrinating children with ideologies directly in conflict with the teachings and values of parents.

--> For example, we are against Christian children being forced to study paganism, but we are also against atheist children being forced to study Christianity. Parents who don't subscribe to the global warming theory should not have to suffer their children being taught the green agenda: neither should devoted environmentalists be undermined with the idea that man was meant to dominate nature.

--> The Alliance can be known as an equal opportunity indoctrination buster.

--> Therefore, make no mistake about it, innocent or otherwise: when we take a stand against the gay agenda in government schools we are taking a stand against the undermining of parents who are opposed to homosexuality. We are not making any statement whatsoever on homosexuals themselves.

--> A paper written by Rob Reich of Stanford has been making the homeschooling rounds. Seems Mr. Reich is lamenting the unfettered freedom that homeschool parents have to direct their children's education.

"Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority over Education: The Case of Homeschooling" http://pro.harvard.edu/abstracts/002/002021ReichRob00.htm

[rwjst4]

"If all this you're sending me is homophobic then you can stop sending it to me."

This is what I would have written to this person:

You don't like it? Ok then, I will forward your name
to GLAAD and the "Rainbow Coalition." I'm sure that
they would be more than happy to discuss with you how
to protect your homeschooling rights.

[concerned about politics]

We homeschool, and the gay agenda is taught to be an abomination. That's the way we'll keep it.
The number of homeschooling families is on the rise- more than ever before. It's a good thing. More people are moving their kids out in protest.
Hope the schools have nothing left in the near future but waco extremist spoiled whiny green worshipping liberals. That'll teach them!

[Havisham]

Parents in Mass. know it's not a myth

[Fish out of Water]

*Index Bump

[Khepera]

Ok so tell me again... what’s wrong with being homophobic? It means we have a fear. What wrong with fearing homosexuality and its effect on society or our children? Who cares what names they call us? If they call us names will it change the way we think? I will not tolerate homosexuals and will discriminate against them whenever possible. They belong in jail with the other perverts.