Grittiness, resilience, gumption are more consistent motivators than hope. Inner strength over requiring promises. If the world were to end tomorrow, we can still function today.

Exactly. Epstein appears to have offered language from Dobson to one of his clients to help groom the victim to submit. This is baked in the American cake. Humanity really. It is hard to take.

I’m always a bit surprised to hear/read this sentiment because who does anyone think is committing the abuse?

I get the sentiment, but I disagree. Adults have shrugged their shoulders at the abuse of children since the beginning of human history. That shouldn't make you hopeless. It should wake you up. It should motivate you to make changes in your own life, family, and community.

Definitely no parental rights for families separated by Trump and ICE, either.

"States such as Connecticut, Illinois and West Virginia have attempted to pass additional reporting requirements to guard against child abuse in homeschool settings. They’re running up against parents’ rights groups and homeschooling advocates."

This treatment of children is antichrist.

New apartment has a fireplace!! 😍

Hitting a person who lives with you, who loves and trusts and relies on you to survive, is abuse. Children are people. Hitting a child who lives with you, who loves and trusts and relies on you to survive, is abuse.

If it’s assault to do it to an adult, it’s assault to do it to a child.

Children are people. Don't hit people.

Distilling it down -- when parental rights determines children's rights, we have a continuation of segregation and racial purity bullshit backed by the white jesus christ

Articles I have written on Katy "Ask the Bigot" Faust, creator of the new (but old and recycled) "Greater Than" campaign against Obergefell and marriage equality—which abuses and weaponizes children's rights: rlstollar.com/2025/12/28/c.... religiondispatches.org/2023/12/06/a....

Christofascists and Trumpists just launched a "children's rights" campaign against Obergefell and marriage equality, even though Obergefell is seen by child advocates to be a landmark children’s rights decision. These folks hate actual children's rights. law.stanford.edu/2015/06/26/o....

Focus on The Family is like "Yeah we believe in children's rights...children's rights to have heterosexual parents"

This is also implicitly stating that being a single parent is immoral and should be illegal, since that is also a form of family without a father and mother Which for FotF is a feature, not a bug

Lol, Focus on the Family doesn't give a s@#$ about children's rights—especially when adults desire to hit children.

"One vital tool to fight abuse is actually—surprise!—the will. Since most abusers are not strangers but rather trusted community figures, it takes a very strong will to have the courage to speak up and say, 'This beloved community member hurt me.'"

"I long to believe [God] loves me, but if his love is the twisted definition my parents gave me, I don’t want it."

More of this.

When Illinois recently considered more oversight of homeschooling, convicted child molesters publicly advocated against it. One convicted child molester who advocated against it was later found to be a lifetime member of HSLDA.

“There’s a deep theological divide in the American church. And like in the 1840s when Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians all split over the issue of slavery, we have a choice today.”

This is why I left the SBC.

"Whether it’s enslaver missionaries criticizing Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. or defending an ICE pastor, Southern Baptists have yet to shake their original sin." ~ @briankaylor.bsky.social

"Ending patriarchal domination, by men or women, is the only way to make the family a place where children can be safe, where they can be free, where they can know love.” ~bell hooks

"Since 1995 seventeen states have removed accountability mechanisms their original law had included [for homeschooling], while to date thirty-two attempts to add or restore accountability mechanisms have failed."

In a new article for Gutenberg College's magazine Colloquy, college president Chris Swanson argues colleges shouldn't be bound by government oversight. But he doesn't mention what that oversight oversees: allegations of discrimination, sexual abuse, and other on-campus crimes.

To support responsible homeschooling is not anti-homeschooling—unless your idea of homeschooling involves actual child abuse or neglect. What is truly anti-homeschooling is tolerating and doing nothing about these evils.

"[World Magazine] argues government oversight like food safety guidelines and background checks for child care are intrusive. [World] even suggests following such protocol is equivalent to Nazi Germany’s laws against Jewish people."

"The average child sexual predator’s profile is: married, male, white, heterosexual, religious, surrounded by friends and family, and a parent."

The solutions to abuse in public schools and homeschooling are the same. All schools need checks and balances on the adults that work for them because all schools serve children or young adults—and children and young adults are vulnerable to abuse.

Whew this memoir is great. The worst reviews call it a “homeschooling hit piece.” It’s a picture of what unregulated homeschool is—from a non-religious background—and a warning about how much worse things may get in today’s political environment. It’s also about a very mentally ill parent.

In a new article for the Christofascist magazine World, homeschool alumnus and abuse denialist Samuel D. James argues that homeschooling critics have double standards because they don't address abuse in public schools. This is a red herring.

Along with an absence of critical thinking skills, I suppose this submission to male authority figures comes in very handy for those clergy to cover up CSA crime that seems to be so prevalent in these church communities.

Submission to male authority figures is the beating heart of the Dobson-Trump project, taught to all children in Christofascist families and authorities.

Exactly this.

Homeschool alumnus and abuse denialist Samuel D. James' baseless accusations against fellow homeschooler and novelist Stefan Merrill Block are part of a larger pattern of using abuse in public schools to not take abuse in homeschooling seriously.

Reminder.

Evangelical homeschoolers' fear of social services is unmatched, but their fear of mental health comes close...

Solidarity. "The protest began in response to the treatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was abducted, along with his father, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents last week."

"Their response to this is to castigate their audience: don’t be blinded by your Christian compassion."

We must treat homeschooled children equitably, which means applying child protection best practices and educational standards to all children, regardless of educational setting. This is not a double standard; it’s literally begging for the same standards.

A response to homeschool alumnus Samuel D. James' illogical dismissal of homeschooling critics.

I am curious how many ICE agents are alumni of Christian private schools, classical education, and homeschooling.

"I cannot support the… stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

I don't know if a 4% increase counts as a "surge," but I'm glad for the increase.

Bill Gothard would be proud of how many umbrellas of authority Joel Berry licks.

This is William Wolfe. (FBI investigation into SBC sex abuse, as documented in their report, was closed by the Trump admin) baptistnews.com/article/yet-...

Evangelical and former Trump admin William Wolfe on people being deported by ICE: "I don't care how much they scream. I don't care how much they cry." Info here: www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat....

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.