  urlLink College for the Home-Schooled Is Shaping Leaders for the Right : "...Patrick Henry College is the centerpiece of an effort to extend the home-schooling movement's influence beyond education to a broad range of conservative Christian issues like opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage and obscenity in the media. The legal defense association, located on the Patrick Henry campus, established the college as a forward base camp in the culture war, with the stated goal of training home-schooled Christian men and women 'who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values.
' 'We are not home-schooling our kids just so they can read,' Mr. Farris said. 'The most common thing I hear is parents telling me they want their kids to be on the Supreme Court. And if we put enough kids in the farm system, some may get to the major leagues. ' That is an alarming prospect to some on the left.
'Mike Farris is trying to train young people to get on a very right-wing political agenda,' said Nancy Keenan, the education policy director at People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group, and a former Montana state superintendent of public education. The number of Patrick Henry interns in the White House 'scares me to death,' she said. 'It tells us a little bit more about the White House than it does about the kids.
' Mingling in the corridors of the White House and Congress is also a long way from the sense of retreat at the heart of the Christian home-schooling movement. It began in the early 1980's as a few thousand evangelical Christians began teaching their children at home in disgust at what they considered the increasingly secular, relativistic and irreligious culture ascendant around them — exemplified by the ban on prayer, the teaching of evolution and the promotion of contraception in the public schools..." 
