I still can’t find the veiled Mormonism that this woman is opposing.
OK. Let give you an example. I haven't read L. Ron Hubbard's sci-fi books, or his Dianetics book, but let's just say...
(1) that one of Hubbard's sci-fi books is almost "clear" (to use a Scientology term) of veiled references to underlying Scientology philosophy;
(2) then let's say a "Christian" school & "Christian" teacher introduce this singular sci-fi book into a "Christian" curricula;
(3) then let's say a provoked parent disagrees with the school using Hubbard books because even if this one sci-fi book is relatively controversy-free, certainly the author isn't and you need to take all he has written into consideration when you introduce him as an author of "curricula." (Elsewise, what happens when the kid leaves the school, finds other Hubbard books -- including Dianetics -- and then thinks to himself, "Well, my teacher, my school were 'Christians' and they've already OK'd/sanctioned Hubbard stuff"???)
To take this analogy further, what if the above insertion of a Hubbard sci-fi book as "Christian curricula" remained...a parent pulls her kids from that school because of it...and then a follower of Hubbard -- a Scientologist columnist -- starts to lecture this parent for making this parental decision...accusing her of being irrational, bigoted, etc. all because she was exercising parental discretion as to what was going to be sanctioned as "Christian" to her kids?
That in a nutshell is what we have here. And the total lack of discernment by the Christian community -- from...
...the school,
...to other school parents who didn't join Delilah,
...to indifferent Christians who aren't seemingly bothered (which I judge by the lack of posts in this thread from them)
...to others who say, "Gee, I can't seem to understand this bother by provoked Christians?" or "Gee, I can't seem to understand this veiled Scientology-ism" now makes it seem obvious why Jesus was issuing warnings vs. false messiahs (Mt. 24) 2,000 years ago...because it looks to me like many Christians don't have their antennae up to discern what is counterfeit...and why we shouldn't put our stamp of approval on these authors to our next generation.
Appy, in case you didn't see post #10, go back & re-read some of the "7 OTHER principles" Covey adheres to in his book, Divine Center...
Do you so compartmentalize an author that you think students are only going to be influenced in the there & now w/regard to that curricula -- while they potentially ignore other Covey writings?
Or, they come away thinking, "Oh, these Mormons are Christians, after all" -- because they were both approved by their Christian leaders AND they weren't given full-blown Mormonism for them to properly judge what they teach...in this case then, they lose their sensitivity for reaching out to Mormons as a generally lost people group...I say generally because I don't know which Mormons will be saved...I don't know which Mormons will wake up and smell the John 17:3 coffee and begin an eternal relationship with the true God and His Son on this side of the veil.