Homeschoolers barred from religious materials
Homeschooling parents in a Canadian province have been ordered to stop using religious-based materials or other "unofficial" resources when they teach their children at home.
Pamela Nagle, a Christian, is one of many angry parents in British Columbia who say they will not abide by the order, according to the Vancouver Sun.
"They can't tell me what to do in my own home," said Nagle, whose son is homeschooled but attends a public school one day a week.
Nagle told the paper the materials she uses should not matter as long as her son's education meets British Columbia's standards.
"I don't like the fact that they believe they know what's best for my child," she said.
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Welcome to modern liberalism where people who mainly eschew children for career tell you how to raise your children. Many liberals mock the Pope and it's clergy for being celibate and saying they can't understand sexual sin, but turn right around and mandate what is best for families that still actually have children.
We can look at Canada and be aghast at the developments there with the legalization of same-sex marriage and the legal case where sexuality trumped religious convictions. Where possibly the Bible and the Catechism could become classified as hate literature. Yet Canada could stop becoming something like the picture in Dorian Gray to us and more like a mirror if we allow those same trends to continue here.
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If Kerry wins, USA will be like Canada.
Regardless of who wins, that's our future. Bush can no more stop the advance of judicial tyranny nor the popular indifference that abets it.
I think we'll be driven underground within the next 15 years.
i'm glad y'all have completely given up on the power of prayer. sheesh! and i thought i was st. blog's resident "realist."
Who's that author, O'Brien, who wrote "Saints and Sojourners"? The man's a prophet.
I fully think there is more of this coming. Wisconsin just repealed the "conscience clause" for medical personnel, which used to exempt doctors, nurse, etc. from participating in abortions and other morally unacceptable procedures. The radical secularists are just as fanatical about their "faith" as the radical Moslems are about theirs: "convert or die".
We need to be clear and steadfast in our opposition to these things, but we need to be praying and fasting too.
Darnit! Linda beat me to the Michael O'Brien reference!
I had always thought that "Plague Journal" seemed weirdly plausible at times, but - good grief, it's looking more prescient all the time. Which is not a good thing.
We have to keep up our end of the fight, every single day.
Many SF writers of the 1940s forsaw that the 21st century would become a battleground between religious ideology and liberal/libertine ideology. These writers were usually on the side of libertinism (ie opposed to religion) but their insights, like those of O'Brien, are eerily familiar to the headlines.
I'm getting ready to write a letter to NPR about their Kerry/Communion coverage. Will post it some time later, also.
If you want to see prophecy in very truth, read Humanae Vitae. Around the time of its twenty-fifth anniversary, Cacciaguida read parts of it to a group of Evangelical colleagues, who assumed it had been written within the previous five years or so. They were stunned when they learned how old it was, and how accurately Pope Paul IV foretold exactly what would happen in a culture that embraced contraception. Everything he said has come to pass, about the rise of divorce and the disrespect of motherhood and everything.
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