Well, let's bring out the old checklist (sounds of rummaging)...
1. Story is filed by an advocacy group .... Check.
"CitizenLink" is Focus on the Family's "Action" arm.
2. All of the details are provided by the lawyers from one side ... Check.
3. Alleged reason for "bad" ruling is not stated in full, and is posted without the context or rationale in which it was made ... Check.
4. Important details of the story (messy divorce stuff) are missing ... Check.
Yup -- it's at least 95% certain that this is one of Those Stories .... the ones for which full details would get in the way of the outrage that the author would like to provoke.
There is almost certainly a WHOLE LOT more to this story, and I'll bet the full facts are not helpful to the trustworthiness of this story.
FOtF and the lawyers want to make this a story about faith and home-schooling; not surprising, as that's a large part of their target audience, not to mention their financial support.
I'm willing to bet that "faith and homeschooling" are secondary to the real issues ... such as, the mom may well be a whackadoodle, and the ruling was really about that.
In my experience all homeschool challenges by non custodial parent are won and child has to go to school.
I suspect it is the narrowness and ignorance of the judicary and the guardian ad litums ( who are generally horrible towards homeschoolers and Christians) about homeschooling as well as the general prejudice against Christians. This is a favored ploy of non-custodial to torture the family.
The best thing that could happen to Christians is to have many Christians apply and become Guardian ad litums. It is a short training time, usually reimbursed and believe me Christians need advocates in the American family law system.
More info:
http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090827/GJNEWS02/708279645/-1/CITNEWS
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=24408