This debate illustrates the seduction of socialist government programs. It was a wrong for government to be given the power to run school systems. It is wrong for the federal government, state governments and local governments. Government must not have the power to educate the children. Period.
The seduction of this system is people expect government to educate their children, no matter what the total cost. So the “conservative” candidate can only tell the voters that he will run the socialist institution of public education better than the socialists can run it.
Most conservative candidates cannot bring themselves to doing the better thing, to campaign on eliminating public education and replacing it with parental choice of private vendors.
With the news that the Fairfax school system is going to teach “gender fluidity” and of course the instruction in California that same sex marriage is normal, we now have public education overtly teaching our children values and morals that are directly hostile to those of Christianity. The only choice that parents have in this matter is how to withdraw their children from the public school system.
But this is what happens when government that must allow freedom of religion must act. That is: where religion is prohibited, only secular values will prevail. Because it is easy for secular forces to prevail in the battle of values, we must revoke government power from areas where secular forces will take their war against Christianity.
That also means that since too many in government are now hostile to God’s definition of marriage, we must also revoke government’s power to define and regulate marriage. Then secular forces will not be able to use same sex marriage as a way to destroy godly marriage.
Strangely, when I post this position, I am shocked by how many people who call themselves “conservative” rise up to defend government, and write as if no marriage or education could take place unless government perform it. So, I also plead with people who think of themselves as “conservative” to please think deeply about what they really are attempting to conserve. All too often it is conserving government.
It is not far fetched that we will soon see some Christian arrested because they committed the hate crime of peacefully declining to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage. We could also see a parent arrested because they declined to allow public education from indoctrinating their child with values that were opposed to God’s plain words about sexual morality. Our government has become our enemy. It is time to fish or cut bait on what powers we allow government to have and that is why I advocate an Article V convention.
Good post. General all-around bump, for re-reading.