These proposals, from the appropriately named Badman Report, accepted by the Government, provide yet more evidence that our government are statist control-freaks who are determined to destroy families and despise Christ.
More information about the proposals, and information on how to respond in the consultation process can be found on the Christian Institute website.
Children do not belong to the government. Of course, they don’t belong to their parents either. They belong to the One true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
But in his infinite wisdom, God has entrusted children to their parents, and in his Word has given parents the responsibility and authority, under him, to decide how to teach and train their children. The means they use to educate their children – homeschooling, Christian schooling, public schooling, state schooling – are matters of liberty, for each family to reach their own decisions about in the light of Scripture and how it applies in their own particular circumstances. But one thing is clear, the government has no authority to transgress in this way the boundaries of the authority that God has delegated to parents.
To ride roughshod over the authority of parents in this area is to ride roughshod over the authority of Jesus Christ.
I personally doubt that it’s possible to be a consistent, Christ-loving Christian and to support this government, which has set itself up in place of God. In the next general election, a vote for Labour will be a vote against Jesus Christ.
When you move, don’t forget that public schooling and state schooling are the same thing over the pond.
Yeah. I had a couple of conversations trying to untangle for my friends over there the different things we mean by public, private, and state schooling.
Presumably, Neil, you and Anna are pretty much bilingual?
(I discovered today that jumper doesn’t mean the same thing over there, and could lead to some unfortunate misunderstandings…)
There are certain things that James only knows in Americanese:
Robe (dressing gown)
Store (supermarket/shop)
Cookie (biscuit)
Also watch out for:
candy (sweets)
cotton candy (candy floss)
what we call a bum bag might sound very rude to you when translated into American.
The best thing is when my father-in-law can’t make himself understood in either country. He will speak of a mobile [phone] but with an American pronunciation that Brits don’t get. But of course to Americans it’s a cell, so they don’t know what he’s talking about either!
I’m not sure about jumper – is that someone committing suicide?
I can’t quite bring myself to say bum bag. So f*nny pack will certainly be beyond me.
I understand that a jumper is a pinafore dress.
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