Albert Mohler on the New Hampshire homeschool case

A great treatment by Al Mohler of the controversy over the New Hampshire homeschooled child, who by all accounts is well adjusted and academically excelling, nonetheless being forced to public school because a religious education is deemed inherently inadequate and perhaps harmful. Several important points were raised in the show.

What about kids in a Christian school? If a "rigid" religious education is deemed harmful (and who decides what qualifies as a "rigid" religious belief as opposed to a permissible one?), maybe kids shouldn't be allowed to go to religious private schools where they will be surrounded by other like-minded kids. That seems to be a unacceptable to the court as homeschooling and since religious school teachers fall outside of the iron fist of the teachers unions, don't think for a second that they are safe.

The reality is that parents will make poor choices, will make mistakes, will be bad parents. So what is the alternative? The only alternative as Dr. Mohler puts it honestly is to remove parents from the parenting equation. Let the state take over kids and assume that the state will somehow do a better job raising kids than it does in public education or really any other function the state takes on.

Pay attention here, religious liberty is chipped away every day and the death by a thousand cuts is a death nonetheless.