California, a dingy legal mind, and the Gospel.

An appellate court judge in California on February 28, 2008 reversed a lower court ruling, finding that parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children. Disregarding some California precedence and Society of Sisters and Yoder U.S. Supreme Court cases, the judge remanded the case to the lower court, and effectively ordered the parents to enroll their children in a public full-time day school or a "legally qualified private full-time day" school." The judge could find no constitutional or legal right to home school in California, stating clearly within the decision that such parents who care for, and love their children that they will be subject to "a criminal complaint against them, found guilty of an infraction, and subject to imposition of fines or an order ot complete a parent education and counseling program." P. 11 of Decision. I'm no expert on homeschooling law little alone California law, but the judge in this decision gulps quite a chunk, and weaves through the constitutional law like an old drunk driver. The challenge to concerned and loving parents cannot be avoided: If you love and discipline your children, if you love the souls, minds, and hearts, of your children, and if you educate your children at home, your are a criminal. The law in California has changed recently, that requires all public school children be instructed at some point, the myth that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle. Let's see now, imposed views on a moral problem, education and counseling, all this sounds a little "soviet" to me. In an ironic way, when analyzing the Yoder decision regarding the Amish, the court found that if Christians just lived out their lives a little more obviously and openly, and that if he could observe that Christians live a Christian lifestyle, rather than a wordly one, then he may be able to find homeschooling acceptable!! In otherwords, a “sincerely held religious belief” is not enough. The judge said you have to live it in order to kick in First Amendment protections. Even here in the dingy mind of this a judge, He is calling us. Gospel anyone?