'Indy Timeline' of Upcoming Events Public Schools... An Evangelical Exodus?
[excerpted from the Indianapolis Star]NEW YORK -- Public schools take a lot of criticism, but a growing, loosely organized movement is now moving from harsh words to action -- with parents taking their own children out of public schools and exhorting other families to do the same.
Led mainly by evangelical Christians, the movement depicts public education as hostile to religious faith and claims to be behind a surge in homeschooling.
"The courts say no creationism, no prayer in public schools," said Roger Moran, a Winfield, Mo., businessman and member of the Southern Baptist Convention executive committee.
"Humanism and evolution can be taught, but everything I believe is disallowed."
Moran, the father of nine homeschooled children, co-sponsored a resolution at the Southern Baptists' annual meeting in June that urged the denomination to endorse a public school pullout. It failed, as did a similar proposal before the conservative Presbyterian Church in America.
Still, the movement is very much alive, led by...
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