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Homeschool Plight

The Plight of Homeschooling

Remember that story about the German family under persecution for home schooling their children - specifically because of the Biblical nature of their teachings? How about the one where the government forced a family to stop homeschooling and place their kids in the public indroctrinations centers they call schools? And finally, what about the family that were so much under attack that they fled to Austria from Germany, and have now fled to Canada?

Mike Donnelly of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), a past guest on Political Pistachio Radio, makes it his business to follow these cases, which has now gone to an extreme. He explains the latest development.

"The Plett family, who had been living in Austria after being chased out of Germany by the youth welfare authorities who had taken custody of their children, have now left Austria and have fled to Canada where they hope to be able to freely home school their children without further interference from German authorities," he says.

According to Donnelly, such cases are becoming increasingly more common in Germany. Most flee Germany, but remain in Europe, because of the ease of traveling between the countries.

"In fact, not too long ago one family actually decided to flee Germany to Iran to home school their children, if you can believe a family fleeing Germany to Iran for freedom," says Donnelly.

The Plett family has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.

Home schooling has been under fire here in the United States, as well. In California, recently, a judge ordered homeschool children into public education. Even a United Nations protocol, and the liberal left's belief that international mandates supercede the U.S. Constitution, has endangered homeschooling in America. And that isn't even considering the fact that the liberal left wishes to take away the most effective disciplinary tool from good parents - spanking. That's right, in California the left was actually pushing a law that would jail parents, and take away their children, if they dared spank their kids. The liberal left does not believe you are capable of raising, or teaching your own children, and it will only be a matter of time that they will try to take your kids away from you if we don't stand together and make sure they don't!

It doesn't take a village to raise a child. It takes loving parents.

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Holy Bible Under Attack - over Homosexuality

Lock Up Your Bible - It is being attacked in the courts because it says Homosexuality is a Sin!


Senator Barack Obama's campaign site has a blogger on it that has decided the Bible versions being published by today's publishers have violated his rights and are instruments of hate speech because they proclaim in their text that homosexuality is a sin. The lawsuit is for $60 million against Zondervan, and another $10 million from Thomas Nelson Publishing. The lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan.

Bradley LaShawn Fowler is a 39 year old gay man. He states that since the Bible calls homosexuality a sin he has been an outcast from his family, and it has caused him physical discomfort and a feeling of demoralization, chaos, and bewilderment.

Of course it has caused you difficulties. What you are doing is against Biblical Scripture, and against God. The calling of homosexuality a sin in the Bible is nothing new - it is just that the newest versions are actually beginning to use language that more easily identifies it as such.

Your physical discomfort is not from the Bible, it is from what you are doing. Your feeling of demoralization is called guilt. Of course you are bewildered. You are in direct opposition of God, and now you are doing something I have been expecting for sometime - you are attempting to outlaw the Holy Bible.

How long before I must tuck away my Bible, locked away in some dark corner, only to bring it out when I know Big Brother isn't watching? How long before even saying the name of Jesus Christ becomes a criminal offense? Is that what you want? To silence faith because you want to live in sin? Do you wish to imprison millions because you can't control yourself and need some legal justification to validate your activities?

The persecution of the church has reached a new level, and as predicted in that Holy Bible that Mr. Fowler desires to eliminate, the battle to be free as a person of faith has begun.

Is this the change that Obama is promising? A brave new world of totalitarianism where doing the wrong thing is accepted, and being a person of faith is a crime?

Be careful what you say, read, or do, in this new world - it may cost you your freedom thanks to the courts, and people like Obama's blogger, Mr. Fowler.

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Obama says Learn Spanish - Your English is Embrassing Him!

Barack Obama: Your Children Should Learn To Speak Spanish


Barack Obama is embarrassed that Americans don't speak the languages of other European Countries? He seriously thinks that our children need to learn Spanish? If I am understanding Senator Barack Obama correctly, American sovereignty isn’t a big deal, and neither are our borders.

Obama doesn’t recognize America as a sovereign nation. He sees our country more as a Canadian and Mexican shared something-or-other.

Since we aren't America, and we aren't a sovereign nation in Obama's opinion, that must mean then that we’ve just got to learn Spanish (or whatever other language he wants us to learn). After all, we don't want to be embarrassing ourselves, or the noble Barack Obama, when we travel abroad.

*Turn on major sarcasm*

Gosh, it's bad enough that we offend everyone by speaking the language of our land, and only the language of our land. Wow, especially those Europeans, we don't want to be offending them, or embarrass ourselves by only speaking the language of our land.

*Sarcasm Off (for now)*

I am not saying that learning another language is a bad thing. My wife is fluent in Spanish, and has some grasp of French and German, enough to get by if she had to, and can communicate in Portuguese quite well too. Hey, if someone wants to learn other languages, that is great, more power to you, it is a fantastic skill to have. But should such an endeavor be forced upon us? Should it be shoved down our throat to learn another language because we might embarrass poor Barack Hussein Obama?

Obama, it is apparent to me, desires that globalism (and probably the idiotic lie of man-made global warming) be taught to our children. And in Barry’s hollow dome, Spanish should be just as prevalent as English in this country!

He made sure that you understand that as an American you are arrogant for daring to speak only English. He said, "I don’t understand when people are going around worrying about, we need to have English only. They want to pass a law, we just, we want English only. Now, I agree that immigrants should learn English, I agree with this. But understand this, instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English, they’ll learn English, you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish."

That's right (proof positive in the video below), Barack Obama has proclaimed in his great, "lightworker" wisdom that Americans must learn Spanish - even if Obama can't speak the language.

Learn Spanish, and learn it fast. You don't have a choice. Why? Under Barack Obama's presidency part of the United States will effectively become the northernmost state of Mexico.

What about his daughters? What’s their second language? Do they speak Spanish? Huh?

He continued to tell us that he is embarrassed of his country. (Wait a second, sounds like his wife, after all, until now she has never been proud of this country.)

Obama also said the following:

"It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is merci beaucoup."

Last time I checked, English is the primary business language around the world. Last time I checked, several countries in Europe have English as a primary language. Last time I checked, nearly a billion people on this blue marble called Earth speak English.

And guess what? We are in America - and our country gives continuously to these countries over and over, expecting nothing in return - And in this country we have one primary language. Personally, I really don't care what the rest of the world thinks about that.

Of course, what really bothered me is that the people in the audience actually laughed with him, and applauded this idiocy! Then again, these are the same blind followers that cheered when he blew his nose, too.

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