Attorney General Holder: Parents Have No Right to Educate their Children
February 21st, 2013 | 
Author: Justice Department: Home Schooling not a ‘Right’
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Illegal aliens – including drug dealers and other criminals – are welcome to come across the border in droves, according to this administration.
But a Christian family fleeing persecution in the form of fines, jail time and the confiscation of their children? Not worthy of asylum, according to our Justice Department. And why? Because parents don’t have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of their own children, our own government argues.
THIS is why the Parental Rights Amendment is so desperately needed!
The U.S. Justice Department says home-schooling is not a fundamental right.
That was the argument the Obama administration made in federal court against an evangelical Christian family from Germany seeking asylum in the United States.
Germany broadly forbids home-schooling. So the Romeike family was forced to flee the country or risk losing their five children to the German government, which was trying to force them to put their children in public schools.
The Homeschool Legal Defense Association is working on the Romeike family’s behalf.
Michael Farris, founder and chairman of HSLDA, wrote about Germany’s home-school ban in his blog saying, “It is thought control. It is belief control. It is totalitarianism dressed up in politically correct lingo.”
Mary Jackson explains at the Baptist Press:
The Romeikes fled Germany in 2008 after authorities fined them thousands in euros and forcibly took their children because they homeschool. In 2010, a U.S. immigration judge granted the Romeikes political asylum — the first time this status was granted based on compulsory schooling laws. The judge found the family has legitimate fear of persecution in Germany, where a small group of Christian homeschooling families have already been jailed, fined and stripped of their children.
[...] At a German public school, the children were bullied for their Christian beliefs. The Romeikes found school textbooks filled with inappropriate content. Still, Uwe says, “We knew that homeschooling would not be an easy journey.” The Romeikes came to the U.S. when “all other doors seemed to close.”
In Tennessee, Uwe teaches piano while the children play basketball and take science classes at a local co-op. Uwe says the uncertainty they face now hardly compares to the fear of “waking up with the police at your front door, there to take your children … not knowing if you will ever get them back.”
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Sorry Mr. Holder,
But government authority does not preclude God’s authority. And He says to raise your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. And the remnant will do so until the end. And you and your ilk will have nothing to say about it.
One of my greatest accomplishments in life has been to either Homeschool or send my children to private Christian School. And in May my youngest graduates from High School.
My Mission has been accomplished. Oh yes, while I was investing money in Homeschooling and private Christian schools the government was taxing me to support the Public Schools. So yes I supported my local Public Schools, but only through forced taxation.
So Mr. Holder you are now in your 60′s. You need to think about the Heavenly Justice you will meet when you pass away. You need to think very seriously about the choices you make from here on out. May I suggest you read the Holy Bible.