Ron Paul's homeschooling curriculum = Christian Reconstruction [View all]
Former Representative Ron Paul's announcement this week of the upcoming launch of his eponymous home-schooling curriculum makes clear that the end of his career as a gadfly Republican presidential candidate does not spell the end of his role at the helm of a movement aimed at transforming the way Americans think about government – and God.
The Tea Party godfather has always enjoyed a devoted following of home-schoolers, a relatively quiet segment of the Paul coalition that frequently has flown under the media's radar... Paul's advocacy of home-schooling is not just about getting kids out of what home-schoolers disparagingly call "government schools".... It's based on the idea that the government is largely illegitimate, and that one must create a society in which the populace will follow "moral" (that is, biblical) laws, rather than the laws created by an overzealous, tyrannical government.
Paul's new director of curriculum development is Gary North, the son-in-law of Christian Reconstructionism founder RJ Rushdoony. Reconstructionism is a movement based on the claim that God granted only limited "jurisdiction" to government, and that biblical law should supplant civil law in all but a handful of circumstances.
Rushdoony was one of the first advocates of Christian home-schooling and a developer of its early curriculums, according to Julie Ingersoll, associate professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida... He later acted as an expert witness in court cases, laying the groundwork for claims that government refusal to allow parents to home-school their children was a violation of the free exercise clause of the first amendment...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/12/christian-fundamentalism-ron-paul-homeschooling
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