Raging ideological battles in both California and Iowa reached new levels last week when students packed up their backpacks and left their public schools. In California, parents staged a two-day boycott, pulling students from state schools in protest of SB 777, a bill force-feeding children perverse material and videos vile enough to garner an R-rating in the local multiplex. Meanwhile in Iowa, distressed parents removed up to 200 students after one public high school sponsored an event encouraging students to bend their gender by cross-dressing.
Evidently, some are beginning to wake up to the fact that their children are no longer receiving true education, but are being clandestinely recruited into sick social movements threatening to tear families apart at the seams. As Barb Heki with the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators stated: “Kids are being saturated with anti-Christian teaching, touching not only their minds, but their hearts.”
Yet tragically, while some Christian parents and pastors demonstrated courage in removing their children from the filth, the vast majority simply looked away and did nothing.
This is incredible considering that 85 percent of children from Christian families are being public schooled, and around 85 percent of them are losing their faith by the time they graduate. So the question must be asked: What is currently preventing most parents and churches from taking action as the nation’s children are being soul murdered?
Child advocate Jody Wohlenhaus, working in tandem with the Iowa Family Policy Center, has observed that “non-believers possess a more clear vision of how to shape children than many Christian parents do.” She said they not only get to children early, but they strongly appeal to the children’s sympathy by distorting statistics on bullying. In short, they know how to take our children captive.
While some parents are screaming inside over the psychological abuse inflicted upon their children, other Christians don’t appear to care.
And to the detriment of the church, most pastors stand unashamedly mute behind their pulpit microphones each week. In the eyes of some pastors, homosexuality is simply one of many immoral evils, so a negative focus on that one sin is overkill. They completely miss the aggressive intrusion into our children’s lives, as the homosexual movement brings the bedroom into the classrooms of children as young as kindergarten.
When it comes to actively promoting sin to public school children, the homosexuals are light years ahead of adulterers, fornicators and substance abusers, who haven’t yet implemented student-run organizations to convince children that such lifestyle choices are normal. In Iowa, one male transsexual dressing in a skirt, high-heels and a wig regularly speaks to both high school and college students. A couple of “Liz’s” duded up presentations are titled “The Bible and the GLBT Community” and “Transgender and the Church.” When is the last time you heard of a heterosexual prostitute doing that?
So where are the church pastors shouting from the rooftops about these issues?
Many are AWOL. For instance, according to the News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., the Rev. Stephen Davey, pastor of a large, conservative church, discourages Christians from engaging in political action. Davey said, “The mission, energy and investment of the church is not to clean up the evils of society. The mission of the church is to evangelize society.” Well, Christ did a pretty good job of sweeping out the moneychangers in the temple and confronting the Pharisees, while spreading the Good News.
It’s no wonder most young people can’t be found in church pews. The church has left them to the “evils of society” to fend for themselves, while church youth groups largely focus on entertainment. Apparently, far too many churches view involvement in politics as nastier than the homosexual indoctrination of children.
According to Rev. Davey, “… the greatest danger facing the evangelical church is not the destruction of its values, but the distraction of its focus.” In reality, it is the destruction of both church values and church focus that is the problem.
Could it be that physical “possessions,” both church and individual, have become more important than our children? Consider the following:
- The U.S. Census Bureau determined that the number of people in the average American family dropped 30 percent between 1940 and 2002.
- During approximately the same period of time, the average American house tripled in size, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Family sizes decreased, while house sizes ballooned – a clear indication of misplaced priorities.
- Since 1964, suicide rates for young people ages 15 through 24 doubled, while at the same time their parents’ divorce rates also doubled.
- The percentage of families headed by a single parent more than doubled since 1970.
While there is nothing wrong with being wealthy, it does become problematic when it prevents people from focusing on what is most important, namely God and family.
Thankfully, several highly influential Christian leaders are speaking out. One prominent minister, Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, speaks boldly to the issue. Deemed the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.” Mohler urges: “I believe that now is the time … to develop an exit strategy from the public schools. This strategy would affirm the basic and ultimate responsibility of Christian parents to take charge of the education of their own children.”
More people are beginning to realize that the children have been left behind.
Let’s all do our part to bring them home.
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Olivia St. John is a freelance writer with almost 20 years of experience as a home educator. Her work has been featured in several online publications, and she is currently working on a book promoting home education.
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