Gleason has a response to questions like, "What about the single mother who
can't afford tuition for a private school or spare the time to home school
her child?" He offers church families who home school their children as
places where the single mother can put her child.
Gleason's rationale is simple. "If you're going to send your kids to Caesar,
you're going to get Romans back."
He's right. It isn't just the sexual re-programming. That's symbolic of a
larger problem. The government schools want to shape a child's mind in ways
that reflect a mostly liberal, humanistic worldview. This has implications
for a child's understanding of economics, foreign policy, American history
and the size and purpose of government, in addition to what once were known
as "traditional values." It is about reflecting the worldview of the
teachers unions, who are in the pocket of the Democratic Party. In other
words, the Left uses public schools to produce the next generation of
Democrats.
The tragedy is that too many conservative Christian, Republican parents who
want their children to have a different worldview - their own - willingly
participate in the destruction of their children's minds by turning them
over to a way of thinking that is antithetical to their beliefs. Parents who
worship at conservative churches on Sunday willingly send their children to
schools five days a week where what they are taught undermines what they
learned in church and at home. They would never think of taking their kids
to a church that teaches doctrines opposed to their beliefs, but they don't
give a second thought to doing the same thing by sending them to government
schools. It makes no sense.
Gleason has found it difficult to start a fire among conservative Christians
because apathy is like wet underbrush, but he is undeterred. He thinks that
like those other fires with which California is familiar, the best time to
get out is while you still can.