Bro. Bush & Faith-Based Action: Two Nations Under God?

[Carolab]

Bro. Bush & Faith-Based Action: Two Nations Under God?

An American GULAG, published by The Education Exchange <http://www.teenliberty.org>

Washington D.C. (12/20/00) In a small faith-based residential "schoolroom" in northwest Florida -- actually a converted garage -- children stand and pledge allegiance to the flag. But which flag? The stars and stripes of the United States? No. The children solemnly pledge allegiance to the flag of the Christian Nation, "and to the Christ whose coming is at hand...."

"When their school day is over," says Alexia Parks, author of An American GULAG, Secret P.O.W. Camps for Teens, "these children don’t return home to their parents. These are captive children," she says. They have fallen through a loophole in state law that has, in effect, created a separate Christian Nation within the state of Florida which is governed by the Florida Association of Christian Child Caring Agencies (FACCA). This law, which also exists in Texas, allows any faith-based, Christian child caring facility, whether a mainstream group or "cult-like" fundamentalist sect to operate outside the laws of the state. Unlike faith-based daycare centers, where children go home at night, residential (long-term) facilities make all the difference in the world, says Parks. These children have become the "cash crop" of a fast-growing industry which, may use harsh techniques, forbidden in public schools, to change their belief system against their will.

Anti-American? Are these faith-based "schools" training foot-soldiers for a religious war? According to Parks, the children who emerge from high security, faith-based facilities are like walking time-bombs. They carry their Bible with them to protect them from the "evils of the outside world." But in time, she says, they will explode.

Parks has spent the past two years counseling worried parents of troubled teens, and teen survivors of harsh faith-based schools. "America," she says, "has created a GULAG for its children; a harsh, private prison system for children who are incarcerated against their will by their parents. Behind closed doors, many of these children suffer child abuse and child torture, as their tormentors seek to change their belief-system."

Phrases that define extremist, faith-based facilities that use corporal punishment, isolation and gang-beatings to convert children, says Parks, include "the bluer the bruise, the closer to God," and the constant reminder that "the outside world is evil."

"The odd thing," says one Southern Baptist Minister, quoted by Parks in her book "is that many faith-based schools were a direct outgrowth of desegregation in the South. When the South was required to desegregate their schools in the 1960’s faith-based schools sprang up everywhere as White Folks pulled their kids out of public school and put them into private schools where they would be ‘safe’ from us black folks." Contact: Alexia Parks [phone]; The Education Exchange: [e-mail] ###

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[sam sarrha]

1. I don't usually talk politics to Christians but ..when he was complaining

Restrictions on how his church could spend the money for the faith based projects.. that they got a Mandate by the election to do..

i said, "..well when you suck at the Tit of the American Taxpayer, you are limited by the constitution.." "spend you own fucking money on what ever you want."