Christian Homeschoolers Don’t Like Homos
In that last post we floated the idea of home schooling our imaginary – and exceedingly unlikely – children. If we did have children, however, and decided that we wanted to home school them, we certainly wouldn’t register them in the Spalding Area Christian Homeschoolers, a so-called “Conservative Evangelical Christian Homeschool Support Group”. Why are all the words capitalized? Because the organizers were homeschooled.
Anyway, here’s a little tidbit of their rules and regulations – it’s number seven on their Statement of Faith:
…God created man and woman after His own Image, and that God has ordained marriage, consisting of one man and one woman, to be the foundation of the family and to be the only legitimate and Godly expression of sexuality. We reject homosexual marriages and homosexual orientation, because it is contrary to Scripture and the intentions of God in creation (Romans 1: 18-32, Leviticus 20: 13). We believe that such relationships are destructive to children and the very idea of “familyâ€.
Can you imagine the anti-gay bullying in that environment. Yikes.
SACH also has strict conduct for public behavior:
It is important that we present ourselves in a manner that is a positive reflection on home education. Many who observe us may never realize the total life commitment our families have made in training up our children. We will simply be judged on our behavior and social savvy. We have a responsibility to our Lord to represent his name as the Spalding Area CHRISTIAN Homeschoolers. Also, whether we like it or not, we are advertisements for the Homeschool movement.
And also advertisements for the future fundamentalists of America. These fucking places sounds like a terrorist breeding ground. We’d rather take our changes with Britain’s bullies.
And the kids here are just as socially retarded as those nerds holed up playing World of Warcraft all damn day.
Aryan Nation SKOOL
To clarify… “And the kids here” should have been “there,” referring to the homeschoolers.
I had not had sufficient caffeine supplies yet.
We have been homeschooling our kids since they were in kindergarten. Our oldest just graduated and starts college in the fall – and our youngest just turned 16. Over the years we tried to join homeschooling “organizations” so our kids could play with other homeschooled kids. It was NOT worth the effort. After dealing with the religious freaks and the shove-it-down-your-throat conservatives, we decided (smartly, I might add) to move to a neighborhood with more families so they could make friends – and to “socialize” them with people – not just children and not just homeschoolers. We think they turned out just fine. IMHO these organizations are just another way for the sheep to gather. We (all – as a family) got so much more out of the homeschooling experience by NOT belonging to a “herd”.
I was homeschooled and my parents were ultra progressive (dad is in a union organizer full time now) so WE had a great education, but a lot of my friends who were homeschooled did not. A lot of them had some shocking ideas about everything from gays to dinosaurs.
It was funny because one friend was totally homophobic, but her favorite figure skater of all time was Rudy Galindo because he is “so genuine”.
(For non-skating-fans out there, he is considered incredibly out and flamboyant even for a figure skater).
4 out 5 Baptist divorcees wish gays would stop undermining marriage.
A woman at work home schools her 13 y.o kid. A few months back we were playing hangman over lunch, and were kind of shocked that he didn’t know some seemingly basic words.
We were even more shocked when all his words, when it was his turn, were very 19th Century (chalice for cup, that kind of thing).
And the danger here is, will this kid ever learn that his world-view is centuries out of date?
LOL, these types of homeschoolers are NOT mainstream in the homeschooling community. Luckily my 14yo and 9yo homeschooled children are excellent at hangman. I happen to be a part of a large group of homeschoolers who are not homophobes. Of course, our group of 70 or so families are not a Christian-only group. We welcome all sorts, regardless of religious or sexual orientations. We even let yuppies in!! My 14yo even spends a bit of time on WoW. ;0)
Not sure I’ll be more than a drive by poster, your blog came up on my google alert set to ‘homeschool’ info, but wanted to let folks out there know that we’re not all religious nuts! (and that some of us even educate our children!)