But think of the poor children...

Steve's being too hard on home-schooled kids, I think. Sure, their parents took them out of school because the school -- strangely -- stressed academics. And their father takes classes from someone who teaches that being a slave in the South was, Biblically, not a bad thing at all, since both slave and master had such a close personal relationship. And then there was the thing about Christian soldiers for Jesus. And the being "taught to think" stuff.

Granted.

But think about the children! Please, think about them, Steve. Those poor home-schooled children would have no chance of ever connecting with people like you on a regular basis if it weren't for music, art and sports being available to them in the public schools. And if that weren't in their lives, well, then you can imagine more than a few doomsday scenarios. Why, they might grow up (unless they are killed for Jesus during some Christian war), move to a red state, find someone of equal character and then, gasp, reproduce. And then there'd be more of them. Then more Christian wars will ensue as their numbers grow stronger. And then...

Well, you can imagine. Your kids -- even though they're "messed up," as you say, though I would probably describe them as "intellectually challenged" -- might just save the world from the potential legions of home-schooled Christian warriors by nipping the problem in the bud. Your intellectually challenged children could become the first to introduce home-schooled kids to video games, marijuana and alcohol sneaked from the private stash of contraband and porn you keep hidden in your desk drawer.

You know what happens to them after that, don't you? No more Christian soldiers for Jesus, that's what happens.

And isn't that better for everyone?