Utterly Meaningless

I wonder if there’s some thinking going on that if this is granted it would be ammunition in a fight against anti homeschooling legislation here. It would be pretty hypocritical to grant a foreign family asylum on this basis then prevent a USA family from following the same option.

Since when has hypocrisy ever been a problem for government in this country?

Well, the trial rhetoric *does* fit the ever-popular meme: “Christians are persecuted.”

And, (to digress further), it’s also interesting that the very same people who insist that same-sex marriage is “not a right,” demand that homeschooling is not just a civil right, but a “human right.”

(Snark aside), it would be interesting to know if U.S. politics played any part in the Tennessee judge’s decision.

I am not sure and can’t prove it but it sure feels like Lynn’s on to something, that this is more about Christian persecution than homeschool persecution — and so this case is just about tying them ever tighter together as the same thing.

One angle: I wonder if German lawmakers took note that it was HSLDA Christian Worldview warriors that rushed to the defense of this family. As I understand it, Germany’s skepticism toward homeschoolers stems from its sensitivity to rigid “parallel societies” and who shows up in defense of German homeschooling? The American kings of religious parallel-society building – and architects of Christian king-making organizations like Generation Joshua and Patrick Henry College (tiny.c.../NIMOI). Ooops. Maybe nobody noticed?

American Taliban

Reading a Yorkshire Post homeschool story this morning, I was struck by how their stereotype is about pushy intellectual snob parents, not pious politicized god snob parents.

😉

“Children who are home educated are often seen as being somehow socially dysfunctional. It’s a stereotype reinforced by the kind of prodigies who tend to hit the headlines.”

Daryl,
Could a German Taliban be a twinkle in the eye of Farris & Co.?

JJ,
So, England may be “post-Christian,” but not post-snobbishness? 😉

Actually, I didn’t find the parents in the story snobby. Yikes, does that mean that I am too snobby myself to recognize it when I see it? :O

It’s not snobbery if you really are superior 🙂