Mike Farris:
The German government bases its de facto ban on homeschooling on the idea that home education would give rise to a “parallel society.”

But at the heart of the German government’s arguments against a parallel society are the same arguments of political correctness that we see far too often in America. If you criticize the faddish values of the left, you are blackballed or punished. While speaking against parallel societies, what Germany really is opposing is pluralism and freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

America’s elite drink deeply from this same well. Our public schools coerce kindergarteners to be taught homosexual propaganda. High school freshmen not only are taught this propaganda but are forced to sign an agreement of confidentiality that they will promise not to tell their parents.

This is a worldwide phenomenon that’s driven by the academic left. It’s not tolerant. It’s coercive. It does not embrace freedom of speech for all. Disfavored speech is drowned or punished. It does not embrace religious freedom or parental rights. It views those ideals as an archaic reminder of an unacceptably religious past.

We must stand with German homeschoolers. They struggle not for their own liberty, but also for the right of every individual in western civilization to think differently and act differently from the coercive norms that are descending on the west like the edge of night.

I’m Mike Farris.