Attack on Family and Faith

This decision by the “European Human Rights” court to uphold a law created by Nazi Germany combined with the anti-family trend in international courts may eventually end up being used by liberal judges in the U.S. against American families who want to home-school. Studies show that over 90% of home educated children of Christian parents retain their faith compared to less than half of public educated children of Christian parents. The powers of darkness can be depended on to work to destroy faith. They are attacking and will continue to attack our current right to home school. Let’s pray, vote and act such that our children, grandchildren and other Christian parents will continue to have the option to home school their children even if many of them choose other alternatives. “Raising children is a prerogative of their fathers and mothers and not of the state.”

As one European official, Belgian Member of Parliament -- and a home-schooling mother -- Alexandra Colen, observed last year in an article on the case in Germany, the parents involved in the matter are Christians who claim the right of mothers and fathers to educate their own children. The MP remarked on the fact that these conscientious Christian parents are not only opposed by their government but also lack the support of the official, state-funded churches in their country.

"Six decades after Hitler," Colen noted, "German politicians and official church leaders still do not seem to understand what true freedom implies: that raising children is a prerogative of their fathers and mothers and not of the state, which is never a benevolent parent and often an enemy."