Goochland County: Where Religious Liberty Goes To Die

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Goochland County’s School Board — having solved all the other problems of the world — has decided to force homeschoolers to stand in front of a tribunal and make a profession of their faith…

The policy requires children ages 14 and up who want to be home schooled to provide a statement about their religious beliefs to the school system.

“For a 14-year-old to be threatened to have to come before the school board to explain or justify his or her religious beliefs?” an incredulous Kevin Hoeft said.

The Home School Legal Defense Association said the policy violates Virginia law. State law allows children undergoing religious training to be taught at home without having to defend their beliefs.

Gee, ya think?

Of course, this is nothing new.  Home schoolers have long been under attack, despite outstanding academic achievement and the strong desire of parents to offer their children the best possible education.  Still, this has never been enough to satisfy certain apparatchiks on the left when it comes to enforcing state-held beliefs on what is best for children.  After all, in what lunatic asylum do parents (of all people) get to raise their own children without the loving, nurturing hand of the nanny state?

Then there’s the fact that we live in Virginia… and there’s this little thing call the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom:

Be it enacted by General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of Religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities. And though we well know that this Assembly elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of Legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding Assemblies constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare that the rights hereby asserted, are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.

Doesn’t take a homeschooler — or a Goochland school board member — to figure out what that means.

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