German Homeschooling Family’s Request for Asylum Denied by the U.S. Government.

This is outrageous. Who is the authority to decide what is right for your children? You or the state? What right does the state have to force you to subject your children to godless worldview teaching? None. Here.

Please pray for this family. Ask your pastor to bring this up in congregational prayer.

Why is it that a Mormon is doing more for this Christian family in terms of publicizing this and "praying" for this family than we Christians are?

Don't Christians find this embarrassing?
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The Romeike family has for years been battling for the right to educate their children as they see fit.  Today, the United States government has denied their request.

Originally from Germany, Evangelical Christians Uwe and Hannelore Romeike wanted to homeschool their six children, but it is against the law in Germany.  They faced threats of legal action from the government and crippling fines before choosing to immigrate to the United States in 2010, seeking political asylum.

U.S. Immigration Judge Lawrence Burman granted the Romeike’s request, but it was overturned in 2012 by the Board of Immigration Appeals, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement challenged the decision.

Today, in the words of the Home School Defense League Association, which has represented the family, “the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama Administration’s denial of asylum granted to the Romeike family.”

The parents could face jail time if forced to return home.

The ruling essentially states that “the Romeikes [have] not shown that Germany’s enforcement of its general school-attendance law amounts to persecution against them, whether on grounds of religion or membership in a recognized social group.”

The compulsory attendance laws — and related punishments if violated — apply to everyone, and therefore this isn’t a case of persecution, they say.

“The United States has not opened its doors to every victim of unfair treatment, even treatment that our laws do not allow,” the ruling explains.

Michael Farris, the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), which has been representing the family, commented in a press release: “We believe the Sixth Circuit is wrong and we will appeal their decision…America has room for this family and we will do everything we can to help them.”

Mike Donnelly, HSLDA’s Director of Internal Affairs, added in the release: “Germany continues to persecute homeschoolers.  The court ignored mountains of evidence that homeschoolers are harshly fined and that custody of their children is gravely threatened—something most people would call persecution. This is what the Romeikes will suffer if they are sent back to Germany.”

The family has appeared multiple times on TheBlaze TV, and Glenn Beck has donated $50,000 to their legal defense.

Educating Your Kids in Public Schools?

     There is always this raging debate amongst Christians about whether to homeschool vs. private school vs. public school etc...
And the debates can get pretty heated.
     It's not very helpful to simply say "You are sinning if you are sending your kids to public school." If the person you are talking to doesn't even understand the even more fundamental issues about what education is, and how one's worldview affects how the child is educated, he will never understand why you are making that statement.
     What is the real issue then? The issue is understanding that the purpose of educating our children isnt simply to shove facts in their brains. But the primary purpose of education is really disciple-ship and raising up our children to be godly, logically-thinking, and biblically-minded men and women of God who can worship God properly, and their loving actions and works are properly framed within that Christian worldview.
     As Gary Demar discusses, how can expect our children to develop this worldview if for almost 20,000 hours between 1st grade and 12th grade, our children are being taught not to think with Christ in mind, but simply by their own unaided reasoning and being taught poor or no basic logic? Just from a brute numbers perspective, this clearly overshadows any Friday night worship and Sunday school and worship from 1st to 12th grade (~less than 3500 hours, if you count 2 hours on a Friday night, 2 hours Sunday school, 2 hours worship).. And even in those hours spent at church, are those kids being taught to approach their studies specifically with a Christian world view? No.. 
     Is it any wonder that our churches are battling with doctrinally and ethical liberalism?
     Let's take a quick example. With this whole homosexual marriage issue, this is a good example of disuse of proper logic on both sides of the debate (in addition to the overtly religious aspects to it)... Many Christians cannot comprehend why homosexual marriage shouldnt be OK.. Many issues revolving around the use of the word "rights." or how the word "marriage" came into being, and what the original intent of that word is in relation to man first appearing on this earth. Issues concerning what "equality" exactly means. All of these issues, when discussed using proper logic, are shown to be fallacious reasons for supporting homosexual marriage. But, no one is using proper logic (in addition to utter adherence to Christ and his word) with this debate and our country and our churches suffer as a result.
     And how many people are actually educated in proper logic? In terms of actually thinking properly? Dare I say, probably over 99% of people (Christian and non-Christian) don't know how to think in a logical fashion. I even see this in well respected theologians all the time. It is really amazing to me the fallacious and pole vaulting leaps in logic made to push forth a particular doctrine.

     Anyway, Gary Demar's video really reminded me again of why we all as Christians should be VERY conscious of how we are to disciple (and educate) our children.