Summer school teaches tea party values to kids

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-08-08-tea-party-liberty-kids-camp_n.htm

DANVILLE, Ky. — Eighteen children filed into a small church one evening last week to learn about the principles of American liberty — including lessons on the failures of communism, the Constitution's biblical roots and gold's superiority to government currency.

During the five-day Vacation Liberty School, talks, skits and activities mixed conservative values and early American history, including stories about how colonists' prayers once helped turn back a threatening French fleet and the principle of equal opportunity, but not necessarily equal results.

It marked the latest of a growing number of Vacation Liberty Schools, volunteer-run programs for children mostly ages 10-15 that resemble a mix between vacation Bible school, U.S. history and tea party-style conservative ideas that supporters say aren't taught in public schools.

They're run by members of conservative commentator Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project, a group that holds to a series of nine principles, including "America is good," God is "the center of my life" and "My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government," which "cannot force me to be charitable."

[drm604]

1. Child abuse.

Not legally, but morally and ethically.

[tanyev]

2. "Who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."

Glenn Beck, 7/26/11 about the attack in Norway.