In a post titled “What is the priority for HSLDA? Homeschooling or politics?” Valerie Bonham Moon examines the strangely spiraling-out-of-control situation involving HSLDA and the U.S. military:
“I’ve already commented on the inappropriate connection the National Guard has with the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA): National Guard and HSLDA. The connection seems to go farther than just a military ignorance of ‘how’ homeschooling ‘works’ (thoroughly decentralized, with with HSLDA representing all homeschoolers as much as the editors of Parenting magazine represent all parents).”
Valerie quotes from the Open Letter to Homeschool Community posted recently to many homeschooling blogs, websites, and discussion groups. She notes:
“I continue to hope that the HSLDA connection to official military websites is one of ignorance, and not a result of anti-pluralist servicemembers purposely skirting long-standing military policies of official neutrality concerning religious beliefs. However, as information accumulates about overt anti-pluralist activities in the armed services and the government, my hope is fading.”
Valerie then backs up her concern with a series of links to articles from the mainstream media which explain this still-developing situation, such as “Gog, Magog and George Bush,” “Onward Christian Soldiers,” “2003 SecDef Worldwide intel report cover sheets,” “The Rumsfeld Briefings: Decoding The Classification Phrases,” “Was Bush on a mission from God?,” “Lawsuit Alleges Mandatory Christianity in US Military,” and “With God On Our Side: One man’s war against an evangelical coup in America’s military.”
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