Homeschool News & Views

Issue 74, June 22, 2008

From Homeschool Helpers

In association with Pass It On Ministries

 

By Dan L. White

 

 

This past week California began holding man/man – woman/woman marriages.  One county clerk made a stand by not conducting any marriages at all, rather than conduct same sex ceremonies.  All of this was caused by judges overruling a vote of the people and commanding same sex marriage.

 

Perhaps the most important news to come out of California was a Field Poll which supposedly showed that Californians now approve of man/man, woman/woman marriages by a margin of 51% to 42%.  This is the first and only time in 30 years of polling that the California public has approved of these mock marriages.  After the California judges’ decree, there has been a recent blitzkrieg of publicity by the left wing media depicting homo marriages favorably.  Perhaps ambivalent Californians have been swayed by that.

 

To go along with the shame of California, the governor of New York issued a memo stating that same sex marriages performed elsewhere, such as in California or Massachusetts, will be recognized as being legal in New York.  All state agencies, including those involved in insurance and health care, must now include such couples.  If state regulations say husband or wife, state employees are to read that to mean a man “married” to a man, or a woman “married” to a woman.

 

Same sex marriage is not legal in New York.  The state’s highest court said it can only be made legal by the legislature, so they took a different view than the California court.  But the governor has basically ordered same sex marriages onto the state.

 

In the House of Representatives, 50 Democrats and 2 Republicans, one from Connecticut and one from Florida, have formed the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus.  The two members of Congress who are open homosexuals, Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Tommy Baldwin of Wisconsin, got the other 50 to join them for the purpose of promoting homosexuality in the US Congress.  They will use this group to force forward anti-Christian laws.  Pro-homosexual is anti-Christian.

 

And in Maine, the Christian Civic League has given up on trying to overturn Maine’s law forcing homosexuality on the state under a non-discrimination title.  They needed to get 15,000 signatures for their initiative, and they were able to get only a third of that.  People refused to support the Christians because they said they didn’t want to be aligned with bigotry, homophobia and hatred.  However, the present law is anti-Christian, anti-Bible and anti-Christ.  So now all those who wouldn’t sign are aligned with that.  

 

The proposal would have repealed Maine's law forcing homosexuality into all employment, housing, public accommodation, credit and education situations.  It also would have reaffirmed Maine's law restricting marriages to one man and one woman; ensured that only one unmarried person or one married couple jointly could adopt a person; prohibited clerks from issuing marriage licenses to persons of the same sex; and prohibited municipalities from licensing civil unions.  But it failed.  Almost no Christians were willing to support it. 

 

A directory of Maine churches is 160 pages long.   Not that it matters.  Maine has about 1 ¼ million people, and they only got 5,000 to sign an initiative supporting Christ.

 

The homosexual movement and the homeschool movement are two contrasting, conflicting waves.  They both cannot exist together.  To not oppose homosexuality is to oppose Christianity.  To not oppose the public schools is to oppose Christian homeschooling.

 

We see from repeated examples that most churches are not willing to stand against homosexuality.  A prime example is Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where homosexuals took over the city council and fifty area churches did not want to get involved.

 

Amazingly, it seems that the churches have stood more against homeschooling than against homosexuality.  This should definitely tell us something about these churches.  Let’s look at the obvious.

 

Christian homeschooling has been one of the great religious movements in American history.  A newspaper editorial from Mississippi, linked below, talks about the good fruits of homeschooling.  It has been widely posted on the internet.  I suppose it is so popular with homeschoolers because it is not from a homeschooler.  In spite of the good fruits of homeschooling, almost no churches actively support homeschooling families.

 

The homosexual anti-Christ movement is taking over America.  Yet almost no churches actively oppose this perversion.  Look on any church or ministry web site and search for messages opposing sodomy, and usually you will find none.

 

Most church congregations consider themselves to be on the narrow road.  Yet I ask two questions of them:  do they actively support Christian education, and do they speak out against sodomy?

 

For almost all churches of whatever ilk, the answer is no, no.

 

We are in a boat.  Some of us, say the Christian homeschoolers, are trying to row upstream, against the current.  Others, the homosexuals and liberals, are sitting on the other end of the boat, trying to row downstream.  A third group is just sitting in the middle of the boat, riding with the current.

 

Which side are the middle riders helping?  If the sitters and the quitters do nothing, which way does the boat tend to go?  Downstream.

 

All those hundreds of thousands of Christians in Maine who would not stand up for Christ and would not oppose sodomy – which side are they helping?  Are they neutral, as they would like to think?

 

No.  They’re sitting in the boat, riding the current downstream, heading the same direction as the homosexuals.  What they did helps the cause of the homosexuals, not the cause of Christ.

 

All those churches which have not actively supported Christian homeschooling;

 

Which side are they helping?  Since the Christian homeschool families face such challenges, when the churches refuse to help them, are they being neutral?

 

No.  They’re sitting in the boat, riding the current downstream, heading the same direction as the homosexuals.  By not helping, the churches are actually opposing the finest Christian education in existence.

 

Here is the link to the newspaper editorial about homeschooling.  Homeschoolers have sent it to each other, and it is posted widely on the internet.  Send the link to non-homeschoolers, not just homeschoolers.

   

http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=274594&pub=1&div=Opinion

 

Also Homeschool Helpers has produced a new book:  School Baals; Old Idol, New Form  -- How the ancient idolatry of the human spirit reappeared in modern times in the schools.  For a limited time you may access this ebook at homeschool-helpers.info/schoolbaals.htm.  Pass the link on to church pastors and acquaintances.  Many have never considered the basis of what is taught in the schools today.

 

School Baals -- old idolatry, new form.