Hillary Clinton’s book, IT TAKES A VILLAGE, basically promotes the idea that a whole community is responsible for raising a child. A government program aimed at the nation’s public schools, the No Child Left Behind Act, fits with the theme of her book. She promotes community involvement as part of the upbringing of a child and the reading act inserts government centralized control on the schools, effectively diminishing the role of parents in the up bringing of their children. (Read Rebecca Hagelin’s article http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57493 for NCLB.) However, this article will take a different tack on what is happening, and the ultimate consequences if such ideas as the NCLB and Hillary’s notions aren’t stopped.

One common link between Hillary’s socialist agenda ideas and the NCLB act is centralized control and planning, the hallmark of the socialist/communist ideology. Another link is that both remove the influence of home and family from the upbringing of the children. The first steps to ending parental influence, and an integral part of the removal, were the many unconstitutional court rulings that removed the Bible and God from the public schools. That opened the door to the government instituting its own religion dedicated to total control. Hillary is on record as saying that needed change is best done from within the system rather than using radical attempts to change society. Her ideas are like termites that eat from within and destroy the structure slowly; the destruction isn’t noticed until the building is horribly ruined.

In Ephesians 6:1 Paul wrote: 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right . The instruction is given to children of Christian parents who presumably are worthy of being respected and obeyed as God has ordained, but the principle therein is applicable to all children. They should honor their parents based on the established standards of right and wrong which come from God. Just because parents aren’t Christians doesn’t relieve the child of behaving properly or the parents from being moral and honorable persons for that matter.

Then in verse 4 we find Paul’s additional instruction: And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.  Parents are being told not do those things which would bring resentment to the point of rebellion. Children will resent restraint and discipline at times, but the rules of the house should follow instructions that are godly using good sense in the process. Further, the parents are to nurture which includes religious training, education, godly instruction, and discipline. Surely that nurturing includes an interest in what the children are being taught in the public schools.

Parents who wish to rear their children properly are appalled and angry because some school officials are requiring students to read filthy books in the name of diverse literature and social understanding. They call it a well rounded education and resent any attempt to be held accountable by the parents. Government programs and the bureaucratic demands in the laws for education are effectively supplanting parents as the leaders of their children.

The founders of the nation knew the value of teaching the foundation of the nation. In the early years, students were well grounded in the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution. They recognized that an understanding of our heritage was essential for the continuation of the republic. However, over the years that foundation has been and is being eroded daily by the forces of diversity and humanism as government has become the be all and end all of the human experience, in effect becoming the new god.

William J. Murray, president of the Religious Freedom Coalition said, "If we do surrender and accept that government is the new god and that the legislators and judges are the new high priests, it is not just America that will lose that first and most precious right of freedom of religion, it will be all of humanity." He furthers said, "Religious freedom was important to the founders, because they did indeed believe it was the first liberty, and without it, no freedom, no liberty could exist at all," (Source http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200709/CUL20070906a.html)

In order to change the shape of the nation, the proponents of government control  know that they can’t succeed in their agenda if God and godly parents stand in the way. Violence won’t be tolerated by the people, but as Hillary Clinton said, [We] need to compromise to achieve political and social progress. A little here, a little there, working within the system and soon her brand of political and social progress will be reality. The NCLB act and her village agenda will ruin the children, and thus the nation will be in ruins because  the people will believe more and more that they must turn to the government to solve their problems. The ideology began in the 1930s and now it has infected the public schools, if not all of the national life. In Sorting It Out, remember that nations which indoctrinate children ensure the future ruin of their freedom and liberty and the consequent ruin of the once viable countries. It is a historical reality. Don't let it happen here.

09-06-2007 DEC