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In a message dated 11/2/05 8:54:56 AM, jimpetersonl@... writes:


> -=-Our
> current conversation is over the covert breaking of laws vs. the overt
> breaking of them.
>
> -=-MLK says this in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail: "In no sense do I
> advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid
> segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust
> law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the
> penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience
> tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of
> imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over
> its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
>

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Not registering to homeschool is an omission, not an overt act. There's no
good way to overtly not file a form.

I doubt that MLK would encourage people to go out and announce to all their
neighbors if they were cohabiting without marriage, or commiting adultry, or
have technically illegal sex. It's one of those privacy-of-the-home matters,
when a family is unschooling. It's not a crime with a victim outside the
home, nor a victim inside the home.

"One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a
willingness to accept the
penalty."

It seems he was talking about segregation laws. That's not parallel to
homeschooling vs. school, nor to registration vs. non-registration.

When so many people were living together that it would have been silly to
have charged one couple with the crime of cohabitation, that's when that law
became silly. When so many people's children have grown up without school and
without having been registered homeschoolers that it would be silly to charge
one family with failing to register, that's when that law will become silly.

There's no advantage to a single couple saying "Guess what? We're not
married!"

Sandra



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