German Homeschooling Family Granted Political Asylum in U.S.
ICC Note
The German family is fled their country after the German authorities prohibited them from homeschooling their children. The Christian family decided to homeschool their children to protect them from anti-Christian teachings of public school system.
01/28/2010 United States (CNA)-Earlier this week, a U.S. immigration court granted political asylum to a Christian family who fled their native Germany after being fined and threatened with losing custody of their children for homeschooling them.
On Tuesday, Tennessee Judge Lawrence Burman called Germany ‘s actions with the Romeike family a violation of their human rights and “repellent to everything we believe as Americans” before passing a ruling that allowed them to stay in the U.S.
Though the ruling has not officially been made available, Judge Burman was quoted by the German newspaper Der Spiegel as saying that the family had “a well-founded fear of persecution.”
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike decided to pull their children from public school in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wurttemberg in 2008 over a concern that their children were being taught an “anti-Christian worldview.” The Romeikes chose to educate their five children at home, which is prohibited by the individual German state’s constitutions.
According to Der Spiegel, in late 2006 the
