Kathryn Joyce writing at Religion Dispatches:
The desire to forward the bill as something with a more universal appeal is likely why, though the board of the Parentalrights.org website it overwhelmingly affiliated with the homeschooling movement, little mention has been made of it as an issue. Indeed, of the HSLDA-dominated Parentalrights.org ‘top ten’ list of treaty targets, homeschooling doesn’t even make an appearance. But that doesn’t mean that homeschoolers are any less its core constituency; just that they’ll be working more quietly behind the scenes, and defending their interests through appeals to non-homeschooling parents . . .
Leadership of Farris’s Parentalrights.org group largely comes from the ranks of HSLDA, including Secretary James Mason, an HSLDA attorney, Treasurer Steve Oberlander, the HSLDA CFO, and current HSLDA president J. Michael Smith, serving on the group’s board. Rev. Michael T. Ramey, an out-of-work Southern Baptist pastor (who blames “the degrading condition of the American Church” for the inability of a “solidly Biblical, conservative (and especially reformed) [pastor] to find a church to serve”) is Director of Communications & Research. And the Board includes homeschooling defender Grover Norquist, homeschooling doctor Lainna Callentine, an Alliance Defense Fund attorney, among others.
