Advocates of home and Christian education are pointing to an article by one of the top executives of the Southern Baptist Convention as evidence that the nation’s largest Protestant denomination is growing increasingly fed up with the godlessness taught in America’s public schools.

The article printed in The Baptist Messenger by Dr. Morris H. Chapman, president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, criticizes the public school system for increasing secularism and moral erosion and proposes that Southern Baptists “bolster (their) investment in Christian elementary and secondary schools.”

Dr. Bruce Shortt, author of “The Harsh Truth about Public Schools” and a board member of Exodus Mandate, a ministry that encourages and equips families to give their children a Christian education, is among those celebrating a change in tone at the denomination’s highest level.

“Historically the Southern Baptist Convention has been joined at the hip with the public school system,” Shortt told WND, “but this article indicates recognition of what the public schools have become and will take the Convention in a new direction.”

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Dr. Dobson Tells Christians to Get Kids Out Of California Public Schools

On March 28, 2002, Focus on the Family founder, James C. Dobson, PhD, stated on his daily radio broadcast: “In the state of California, if I had a child there, I wouldn’t put the youngster in a public school…. I think it’s time to get our kids out. And I’m going to get hit for [saying] that.”

A 10-year-old homeschool girl described as “well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising and intellectually at or superior to grade level” has been told by a New Hampshire court official to attend a government school because she was too “vigorous” in defense of her Christian faith.

The decision from Marital Master Michael Garner reasoned that the girl’s “vigorous defense of her religious beliefs to [her] counselor suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view.”

The recommendation was approved by Judge Lucinda V. Sadler, but it is being challenged by attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund, who said it was “a step too far” for any court.

The ADF confirmed today it has filed motions with the court seeking reconsideration of the order and a stay of the decision sending the 10-year-old student in government-run schools in Meredith, N.H.

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