When I first heard about
German authorities seizing the children of the Wunderlich family because they
homeschooled, I was horrified. But
I hoped it was an outlier. Perhaps
because of wishful thinking, I did not connect the dots very well although I
did remember that it was Hitler who outlawed homeschooling in Germany.
Kevin Williamson does connect the dots. He points out
that totalitarian statists hate homeschooling. For totalitarians seek “to bring
political discipline to every aspect of life — and control of education is
essential to that project.”
And guess which totalitarian
is helping Germany in persecuting homeschoolers? Barack Hussein Obama,
particularly in the case of another homeschooling family, the Romeikes:
The Romeike family was granted asylum in the United
States because the German government was intent on wresting away the children
and putting the parents in cages for the crime of homeschooling their children,
which is verboten in Germany, a legacy of the country’s totalitarian past. The
Obama administration, which in other notable areas of immigration law has
enacted a policy of “discretion” regarding deportations, took the Romeike
family to court to have its asylum protections revoked, and succeeded in doing
so. The family has appealed to the Supreme Court, which has ordered the Obama
administration to respond to the Romeikes’ petition, but the administration has
so far refused to do so.
And it is yet another case
of Obama attacking freedom of religion.
Of course it doesn’t help that homeschooling is
associated in the public mind with a particular strain of Evangelical
Christianity, as in the case of the Romeike family. It is distasteful, but it
should not be a surprise that the Obama administration has no objection to the
political and religious suppression of such unruly Christians — the Obama administration
is doing the same thing to the Little Sisters of the Poor and other Christian
groups that it finds inconvenient.
Germany still clearly has a
loathsome persecuting totalitarian streak . . . and so does Barack Obama.
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