In Court

In court documents she’s called “Amanda.” Perhaps that’s what caught my eye – my granddaughter’s name.

In this Fox News article we find the court documents quoted:

"[E]ducation is by its nature an exploration and examination of new things," the court order read. "[A] child requires academic, social, cultural, and physical interaction with a variety of experiences, people, concepts, and surroundings in order to grow to an adult who can make intelligent decisions about how to achieve a productive and satisfying life."

Our Amanda was certainly exposed to a variety of experiences at public school – including but not limited to overcrowded classrooms, immodest clothing, drug use and teenage pregnancy. Her parents’ answer to high school problems was a nearby Christian school. Which, according to the above court quotes, would not have provided a productive and satisfying life any more than home schooling.

Our Amanda’s graduating class consisted of one Christian girl. Not too different from any home schooled student. Perhaps she would have been different had she remained in public schools. However, now being the wife of a church Youth Minister and the mother of another beautiful girl would appear to be quite productive and satisfying. It certainly is for parents, grandparents and great-grandparents!

The initial error in the court case would appear that two people could not agree. I would remind young people that marriage is a life-long decision. Marriage is designed to last. When it doesn’t, there are consequences. It is best, then, to seriously consider a couple of verses:

Can two walk together, except they be agreed? (Amos 3:3 KJV)

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:14 KJV)

Had the other Amanda’s parents adhered to these two verses, there would be no court case.

This is what -- and why -- we teach:

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. (Deuteronomy 6:4-7 KJV)

As this was confirmed much later, so do we teach it today:

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: … These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. (Titus 2:1,15 KJV)

In many countries, that cannot be done. In America, should we not have the freedom to do so?