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In a message dated 11/16/04 2:16:16 PM, bacwoodz@... writes:

<< I'll bet any homeschooling parent could explain how homeschooling provides
both of these things! We don't live under a rock! >>

Some do.

That article was lame and evil, but that doesn't mean everything he said was
wrong. (I seriously doubt he's aware of what quotation marks mean, as I
seriously doubt those were the exact words of Pam Sorooshian, but he probably went
to public school so there. My kids probably don't know either, but they
didn't have to suffer twelve years to not know.)

I don't live under a rock, but lots of homeschooling families WANT to, and
intend to, and there's even a song to justify it:

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus' name
On Christ the Solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand

(From memory, I think it's around #96 in the Baptist Hymnal I grew up with.)

If we say "that's not true" about something that's true, it's another point
of ignorance (not as bad as misquoting, I think, but still bad <g>).

-=-Anyway - homeschooling can create a free thinking group of constituents.
-=-

I'm guessing you haven't read much of the Christian Homeschooling literature.
They are not trying to create a free-thinking group of constituents. They
are trying to create an army with one Christian mind.

If you join HSLDA or even sign up to receive their e-mail alert messages,
you'll see an ugly, dark, sky-is-falling angle on the world. They'll tell you
what to write where to make the world safe for your children. They'll give you
the phones and e-mail addresses and even tell you what to say.

I suppose they were behind ABC's apology for their Super-Bowl lead-in. If
anyone knows for sure (and especially if you got a notice saying "complain to
ABC"), I'd really like to forward the note to my husband, who wrote this upon
learning about the problem:
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Apologized for what?

Nudity on primetime?

NFL is something less than a wholesome kiddy show?

Violence and smacktalking somehow attracts a better audience than sex? (Not
to mention testerone ridden truck commercials or bigger boobs to sell Dr.
Pepper)

I think we can be sure that the 'mistakes' will continue.
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I told him I was guessing it was an organized campaign of "The Christian
Right" that got that quick an apology.

Sandra