By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY DECEMBER 18, 2013
Here's a good
way to understand politics in America: The State, and its boosters, use State
power to shackle or crush its rivals, such as the Church, private charity,
local community and the free market.
This is at
play in the Obama administration's contraception mandate and the
current stage in the gay marriage fight, which involves outlawing commerce
by those who don't accept gay marriage. This is in evidence in the writings of
liberals who argue that defending voluntary association is trying to "eliminate any notion of
the public" or writers who are "tired of religious groups
operating secular enterprises [hospitals, schools], hiring people of multiple
faiths, serving the general public, taking taxpayer dollars -- and then
claiming that deeply held religious beliefs should exempt them from public
policy."
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'Teddy’s Law' treats all would-be homeschooler parents as child abusers until
proven innocent. The legislation further assumes that all children belong to
the state, as it requires families to seek permission from the government to
home school their own children. They would have to submit to background checks
and a social services investigation in which parents and children are
interviewed separately. The law grants the agency the authority to deny the
right to home school if it 'determines it is not in the best interest of the
child,' without providing any guidelines as to how that determination should be
made."
I expect, in
coming years, more of an all-out assault on homeschooling and private
education. We can't have people who reject the State's ideology
"indoctrinating" our kids, can we?
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