...facing fines eventually totaling over $11,000, threats that they would lose custody of their children and, one morning, a visit by the police, who took the children to school in a police van

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/us/01homeschool.html?em A federal judge in Memphis has just granted political asylum to a Christian homeschool family from Germany. I am so glad they could come here and America welcome them.  Is not raising your children without threat of state seizure a clear and precious freedom? But the times are a changing.  I may live to see America outlaw homeschooling with force in my generation.  It may never happen.  But Germany seems about 50-100 years ahead of America in it's attitude towards Christians.