{"id":5668,"date":"2005-10-30T01:59:56","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T01:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2005-10-30T01:59:56","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T01:59:56","slug":"progressive-home-educators-can-be-bigots-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5668","title":{"rendered":"PROGRESSIVE HOME EDUCATORS CAN BE BIGOTS, TOO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, home education is not restricted to conservative Christians.  And, yes, the media and HSLDA seem to make that error quite often.  That being said, in attempting to point that out, there is no reason to resort to <i>ad hominem<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/wnla.tripod.com\/nationalindependenthomeeducationnetwork\/id18.html\">attacks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Progressives Home School Too!<\/p>\n<p>So too, do independents, atheists, Rationalist Christians (not conservatives), agnostics, pagans, democrats, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Republicans, wiccans, pagans, libertarians, African Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, the list can go on and on. Home-Schooling is no longer the Provence of the lunatic fringe extreme conservative &#8220;Christian&#8221; camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;* [Myth:] Only Right Wing Christians Home School. Well,. they would certainly like you to believe that, but that is categorically untrue. WNLA fights that agenda all the time.  There are home schoolers who happen to be Christian, but that may not be their sole reason for home schooling. The lunatic fringe exists, we know that, we fight them, but we understand their right to home school for what ever reasons they choose. We find they are in general less tolerant of other more diverse views. We owe them for getting the ball rolling, but our homage stops there. (You have more prevalence of right wingers on your local school board than you do in independent home schooling circles.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know nothing about the National Independent Home Education Network, but if it&#8217;s to have any kind of credibility, it&#8217;ll have to grow up a bit and leave the bomb throwing and the name calling to the bloggers.  \ud83d\ude42  (via the <a href=\"http:\/\/ha-nc-legislative.blogspot.com\/\">HA-NC<\/a> blog)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, home education is not restricted to conservative Christians. And, yes, the media and HSLDA seem to make that error quite often. That being said, in attempting to point that out, there is no reason to resort to ad hominem attacks: Progressives Home School Too! So too, do independents, atheists, Rationalist Christians (not conservatives), agnostics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}