A few months ago I wrote about California outlawing homeschooling and the scrambling that went on after that bomb hit the public square. 

This decision which I believe has been rescinded or at least stayed for a period of time reminded me about another case in 1983 not to mention Hitler's outlawing homeschooling in, I believe, 1938. 

Back in 1983 homeschooling was outlawed in about 45 states because it was mandated that the parents would have to have a four year teaching certificate to teach their own children.  Again, this reeks of humanists wanting their hands on our children and will do anything they can to make it hard for parents to homeschool their own children. 

Anyhow how many remember the story back in 1983 about the seven fathers who were jailed because they dared to take their children's education into their own hands?  I provided a link above. 

These Christian fathers spent 93 days in jail because they refused to testify against themselve and invoked the 5th amendment. And guess what?  The court rufused their 5th amendment rights. Even communists have been allowed to use this right.   So what was the problem?  Why were they jailed?

They allowed their children to attend a Christian school that had been ordered closed because the teachers had not taken three secular-humanist filled courses in education. 

Also in Nebraska, to give us just a wee taste of secular-humanist-totalitarian abuse of power,  was yet another  flagrant attack on religious freedom.  The Faith Baptist Church was chained shut by the state after 66 ministers were forcibly dragged out of a prayer meeting by 18 carloads of patrolmen.  This act was judged illegal later thank goodness.  The power of government was leveled against a church in direct violation of the first amendment.  This so called separation of church and state doesn't seem to apply when the secular humanists have guns and control the courts. 

Back  in 1983 the school board in Nebraska was completely controlled by close-minded secularists who wanted full control over public education to include all private and religious schools. 

Years and years ago an attack against a church by the government was simply just unheard of but today such attacks are growing in frequency.  I read recently that in the 1970's a total of 84 intrusions into religious matters were reported but today one of the organizations that  keeps track of such issues has over 10,000 current cases. 

Many Christians are tired of fighting.  Many are apathetic and I'm afraid unless we stand up and fight for our freedoms we will lose them.  The secularists believe that our teaching religion to our children is the worst thing that could happen to them.  But we believe, as did our founding fathers that religious instruction is among "the chief duties of man" and the Unitied States was one nation in which religious freedom to teach our children was guaranteed by the Constitution. 

It's for some of these very reasons that  organizations like Focus on the Family in the 1970's and the  Moral Majority in the 1980's were started.  Today we still have FOF and now the AFA among other people to help the Christians find a voice among the secular humanists who want nothing more than to squash what was begun by people who founded this country who had a personal and abiding faith in the God of the bible. 

"Flexibility in choosing curriculum is vital to homeschooling because each child is unique and has an individual learning style.

These types of continuing threats galvanize homeschoolers throughout the country. While homeschoolers are active and engaged citizens, we always must be mindful that homeschool freedom is fragile.

It can be lost without vigilant action on the part of all homeschoolers. As an organization with more than 80,000 members, HSLDA will continue its mission—which can continue only with the active participation of our members—and work with state organizations to make sure we do not lose any of our hard-won freedoms. "

Michael Smith, President of Homeschool Legal Defense Assoc