[sitetest]

Dear OPH,

I thought you were an attorney. Don't they still teach logic in law school?

Do you really want to tie yourself to this piece of crap?

"Individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds and ecclesiastical communions are influenced by and committed to these ideals, from conservative Roman Catholics to Episcopalians to Presbyterians to Pentecostals, Arminian and Calvinist, charismatic and non-charismatic, high Church and low Church traditions are all represented in the broader umbrella of Reconstructionism, (often in the form of the 'Christian America' movement)."

Reconstructionism doesn't work for Catholics. You will not find faithful, devout, orthodox Catholics who are "influenced by AND committed to these ideals..."

Of course, the irony is, the article points out that some of the folks allegedly involved in Reconstructionism are anti-Catholic. Yet the article alleges that conservative Catholics believe in this drek. LOL.

"It is difficult for secular homeschoolers to understand the apparent double standard when Christian homeschoolers are discriminatory against them at the local support group level, while at the same time, courting their efforts when it comes to state or national political causes. Understanding Reconstructionist Theology and Theocracy is important because it reflects understanding on the division in the homeschooling community between secular and religious members, and the theocratic motivations of politically manipulating the community."

This is an even bigger load of crap. An intelligent individual would be embarrassed to have posted this.

As a religious homeschooler, who belongs to a number of homeschooling organizations, including HSLDA, and various religious and secular homeschooling groups, I can tell you that this is just pure bs. I know many secular homeschoolers. They don't seem to exhibit any feeling that we evil awful religious homeschoolers are discriminatory against them.

And of course, understanding Reconstructionism has nothing to do with understanding the overwhelming majority of religious homeschoolers, since the overwhelming majority of us aren't actually Reconstructionists.

"The Home School Legal Defense Association/Foundation has many links to Reconstructionism."

Oh puh-leeze. HSLDA is one of the most important homeschool organizations in the country. Your logical turd comes out like this:

- there are Reconstructionists who have worked for or who currently work for HSLDA;

- thus, HSLDA is a Reconstructionist group;

- and therefore, anyone associated with HSLDA is a Reconstructionist.

Barbra Streisand Barbra Streisand Barbra Streisand.

First, not all the folks named as Reconstructionists are actually Reconstructionists.

Second, many of these folks are also registered Republicans as well. By the (pseudo)logic of this author, then the Republican Party is Reconstructionist.

Third, the purpose of the HSLDA doesn't have anything to do with Reconstructionism. The purpose of the HSLDA is to give legal protection to homeschoolers from rapacious state and local governments.

I'm a proud member of HSLDA and I'm not a Reconstructionist. HSLDA is valuable to us because it keeps us up to date on the changing legal environment in our state, because it goes to bat for us when the state tries to harm us through new and regressive laws, rules, and interpretations thereof, because it gives us a central clearing house and rallying point by which we can take grassroots action when the state tries to harm us, and because HSLDA will represent me personally should the state try to persecute me and my homeschooling family.


Bottom line - this is a poorly done, hysterical hatchet job trying to smear Christian homeschoolers by trying to tie us to a small minority of folks, some of whom actually homeschooling. It is anti-Christian and anti-homeschool.

It shocks me that the owner of the site would allow such a vile, ill-willed, vicious, false piece of anti-Christian, anti-homeschooling piece of propaganda to stand. Or permit the original poster to continue to post here at FR.


sitetest

[ckca]

Bottom line - this is a poorly done, hysterical hatchet job trying to smear Christian homeschoolers by trying to tie us to a small minority of folks, some of whom actually homeschooling. It is anti-Christian and anti-homeschool.

It shocks me that the owner of the site would allow such a vile, ill-willed, vicious, false piece of anti-Christian, anti-homeschooling piece of propaganda to stand. Or permit the original poster to continue to post here at FR.

Why no comment, Mr. Robinson?

Why is this one individual FReeper permitted to continue his frequent abuse and insult towards a majority of Free Republic users and donors?

[malakhi]

Reconstructionism doesn't work for Catholics. You will not find faithful, devout, orthodox Catholics who are "influenced by AND committed to these ideals..."

I've seen some Catholics on FR advocate many of the same things. They wouldn't get along with the Reconstructionists because each considers the other to be heretical, but the mindset is the same.

[jmc813]

JimRob has nothing to do with this thread. Please quit pinging him.

[bondserv]

I have noticed a pattern of thought among the anti-social conservative leg of FR. Their defining characteristics are:

1. Science provides salvation.
2. Principles based on selfishness (Fiscal Conservative)
3. No position on watershed issues (Abortion, Homosexuality, Mind altering drugs...) using privacy as an excuse.

These positions are derived from an anti-God mentallity based on the intellectual acceptance of the theory of evolution. Homeschooling by Christian conservatives destroys the direction they wish to take the country because it is anti-evolution.

Their biggest fear is that they will be marginalized by the larger segement of the social/fiscal conservative movement. Because of the clear divide in ideology, they are sytematically trying to tear down the religious orientation the country was founded on, as well as the Republican party.

They are despots to our culture because they undermine the most significant tenent of our society.

UNALIENABLE RIGHTS granted by our societies Creator. And the fact that those rights can only be defined by our societies Creator.