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I'm happy that your wife has come to your defense. I guess I'll just have to take you all's word for the fact that you are the just nicest guy on earth.
Anarchy is what you are preaching. Laws and respect for the law are what separates man from animals.
If you have a difficulty with any given law, as is expected, change it, don't just think you can disobey and there will be no consequences.
Home schooling, after much struggle, was accepted by law. Minimal testing being the only requirement. (Much of what we find offensive in Public School Education is not neccessary.)
Then this couple comes along and decides to risk all the hard work of the home school movement by refusing to recognise the laws on the books.
I call that selfish and irresponsible. You call that patriotic.

Anarchy is what you are preaching.

That is your opinion of the 60's civil rights marches?

I guess we can throw those rebels of the Revolutionary War in that pot too and of course those farmers in the Klamath Basin should have just shut up, gone home and watched their farms dry up and blow away. Those law breakers that ran the Underground Railroad were awful too.

Laws and respect for the law are what separates man from animals.

Is that right? I thought it was having been made in the image of God? Or our ability to talk. Or use tools. But what do I know? Jesus sure got it wrong when he said " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." He makes it sound like respect for God and man are more important than the love of law. He even claims it is the very essence of all the law. When He said "Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's" I didn't realize He meant your children too.

Then this couple comes along and decides to risk all the hard work of the home school movement by refusing to recognise the laws on the books. I call that selfish and irresponsible. You call that patriotic.

How do the actions of this couple risk the work of other home schoolers? Are you expecting retaliatory actions from the State on all home schoolers for this couple's refusal to cooperate? Do you accept that as appropriate government action?

I didn't call it patriotic, you mischaracterize my words again. By your logic the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto who revolted were selfish and irresponsible because they caused the Nazi's to come down harder on the rest. I consider defiance of tyranny to be an act of compassion and wisdom.

You seem to be offended that you have been characterized as a socialist. I don't understand that. You are a staunch defender of the State, a socialist POV. If that is the philosophy you believe in stand up and take the label proudly. As for me I believe in the rule of law very strongly, particularly as desribed by our Constitution as a Constitutional Republic. By its very nature the Constitution gives primacy to "the people" not the State and nowhere does it make reference to 'society'.

I guess I don't do "go along to get along" very well.