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Archive for March, 2009

Another Attempt at Parental Rights Amendment

Mar 30

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UPDATE: According to an email received on 4/109 from ParentalRights.org, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (MI) and Senator Jim DeMint (SC) will be holding a press conference at 3:00 p.m. Eastern to announce the introduction of the Parental Rights Amendment in both houses of Congress. They now have 70 co-sponsors. Video below.

When it comes to the upbringing of our children, it is the parents’ rights, not the government’s…

According to this recent WorldNetDaily article, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich. and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., will be re-introducing the Parental Rights Amendment again this Tuesday (3/31/09). Unlike the last time this was attempted, they will now have the backing of 66 Congressional Representatives.  This opportunity is good news for homeschooling parents and all those who wish to keep the state from further interfering in matters best decided by the family.  Please pray for their success this week. In addition, contact your Representatives and encourage him or her to support this amendment as well.

If you have not know the details of the proposed Constitutional Amendment, I have provided a copy of the draft text below for your review:

The Parental Rights Amendment

SECTION 1
The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is a fundamental right.

SECTION 2
Neither the United States nor any State shall infringe upon this right without demonstrating that its governmental interest as applied to the person is of the highest order and not otherwise served.

SECTION 3
No treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of international law be employed to supersede, modify, imterpret, or apply to the rights guaranteed by this article.

Considering how our government has been overextending its reach lately in matters of the economy, the timing for re-introduction of this Amendment could not be more appropriate.  The time to act is now.  To learn more about the movement to secure parental rights here in the United States and how you can offer your support and help, click on over to ParentalRights.org today.

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You Just Never Know How Your Day Will Go…

Mar 27

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So my wife loaded up the kids in the van this morning for a fun homeschool field trip to a radio station located on the campus of local, well-known church. When she gets there, the place is swarming with police officers that had apprehended a man who held one of the homeschool mothers and her children at gunpoint as he attempted to rob them. No one was hurt, thank the Lord. After being taken into custody, he allegedly was found to have an assortment of additional firearms in his car. Very scary stuff for that mom and her kids to face. Pray for them if you are so inclined.

I’m sure no one attending that event thought that this is how their day would play out. Situations like this can really make one think about how little control we actually have of the events in our lives and how we always need to be ready, especially as Christians. Though no one was hurt, Ecclesiastes 9:12 is brought to my mind as I ponder this event:


Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come:
As fish are caught in a cruel net,
or birds are taken in a snare,
so men are trapped by evil times
that fall unexpectedly upon them.

May God bless you this day.

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Socialism

Mar 8

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The word socialism is being thrown around in conservative circles quite a bit lately since the recent bailouts and, of course, the passage of the much-debated American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 . If you haven’t taken the time to teach your kids about socialism in your studies of government and economics, now may be a good time to instruct them in the basic concepts. I hope that some of the links below will be helpful to that end and will also help you increase your understanding of the topic.

Before you leave this site to view the links, check out this great YouTube hosted video which provides a short, but excellent, general overview of governmental systems.

This page from historyguy.com provides a handy guide to types of government that could be helpful in your homeschooling lessons.

These articles provide some wise perspectives on the implications of our government’s recent tendency to move toward socialism.

Back on Uncle Sam’s Plantation by Star Parker

Spurgeon On Socialism by Joel McDurmon

Beating Back Obamanomics by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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Sunday Thoughts

Mar 1

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This weekend I was reading The Dark Side of Islamby R.C. Sproul and Abdul Saleeb. I came across a statement by Dr. Sproul that poignantly reminds us of our fallen tendency to have a low view of God’s holiness and a misplaced view of own.  It is a quote worth sharing:

“As long as we can keep the character of God in eclipse and can conceal from our vision who He is, we can continue to flatter ourselves that we can balance the scales of justice or earn our way into the kingdom of God. This is the greatest human delusion there is.”

I pray that you have a wonderful Sunday of worship and rest.

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