This is an amazing story -- a couple of German evangelicals felt persecuted because they couldn't home-school their kids so they applied for and received asylum in the US. They are going to live in Tennessee. (That environment should be perfect for them.)
Here's the story:
A family of evangelical Christians who said they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs in Germany have been granted political asylum in the US. The couple fled to Tennessee so they could home-school their five children, which is illegal in Germany.
Most asylum seekers in the US tend to flee wars or dictatorships, but one German family moved to the American South in 2008 because they believed they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs. On Tuesday an immigration judge in Tennessee agreed, and granted them political asylum.
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, who are evangelical Christians, say they were forced to go the the US because they wanted to educate their five children at home, something that is illegal in Germany.
Judge Lawrence Burman issued the ruling on Tuesday in Memphis, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association, which is representing the Romeikes.
The family left Germany after several run-ins with authorities. The parents had ignored repeated orders to send their children to school.
1 comments:
How ironic, history repeating itself you could say i.e. religious nut-jobs fleeing from Europe to the new world... ;)
I hope they will be happy now they can teach their kids whatever deluded baloney they like, I doubt their kids will thank them for it though.
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