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A Purcilville, VA nonprofit advocating for homeschooling rights issued endorsements for Republican Sen. candidate Jack Hoogendyk and for incumbent Republican Congressman of the Michigan 7th, Tim Walberg. The group, the Home School Legal Defense Association, says on its web site that:
HSLDA is a nonprofit national membership organization of families who homeschool their children. HSLDA is organized as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, tax-exempt organization under the rules of the IRS.
The Federal Relations Department (formerly known as the National Center for Home Education) is a department of Home School Legal Defense Association that focuses on federal legislation, grassroots lobbying, and research.
Hoogendyk, who is from Kalamazoo, posted the endorsement letter on his web site, which can be seen here.
The endorsement letter, written by J. Michael Smith, HSLDA President and William A. Estrada, Generation Joshua Director says:
These are men and women who have a proven track record of protecting homeschool freedom, and they have also pledged to support the Parental Rights Amendment.
All of these are tight races where homeschool students and parents, led by experienced campaigners from Generation Joshua and Patrick Henry College, can make an actual difference and help elect these men and women to Congress.
Generation Joshua is a program run by the organization to mobilize home schooled youth. From the website:
Generation Joshua is designed for Christian youth between the ages of 11 and 19 who want to become a force in the civic and political arenas. Our goal is to ignite a vision in young people to help America return to her Judeo-Christian foundations. We provide students with hands-on opportunities to implement that vision. There are five major divisions to Generation Joshua.
In America today, battles are being waged over many issues—from judicial activism to attacks on traditional marriage to the moral disintegration of our society. In the midst of the battles, we can lose sight of where our nation has come from, and these pressing concerns could crush our hope for America’s future.
John Winthrop, then governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, wrote in 1630 concerning New England and America: “We shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” He warned that “if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.” Generation Joshua wants America to be a perpetual city on a hill. We seek to inspire every one of our members with the kind of faith that sees beyond our present circumstances to what America can become—if each one of us consistently impacts our sphere of influence for Christ and for His glory.
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