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Romans 13, Jeff Sessions, and Separating Families at the Border

June 15th, 2018 | 10 min read

By Matthew Loftus

In Dr. James Dobson’s Letter from 2012 predicting the dire consequences of an Obama election, he included the possibility of homeschooling families being forced to flee to Australia or New Zealand to continue educating their children at home. Imagine, if you will, that this scenario might come to pass under a Sanders Administration and that homeschooling families might make perilous journeys across the United States, dodging Child Protective Services workers and Antifa paramilitaries before setting out on boats from California to New Zealand. Imagine, then, that when these families wash up on the shores of the island begging for protection from persecution for their beliefs, they are arrested and separated from their children for breaking the law and entering the country illegally. The parents and children are kept in separate facilities or separate cells after having their A Beka textbooks snatched away; these Christian parents who sought only to honor God and keep their children from indoctrination in public schools can hear their children weeping themselves to sleep at night. After several weeks, the parents are deported back to America, sometimes separately from their children.

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Matthew Loftus

Matthew grew up in a family of 15 children and completed his medical training in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2015, he and his family have lived in East Africa, where he currently teaches and practices Family Medicine at a mission hospital. His work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Atlantis, and Mere Orthodoxy and his first book is forthcoming from InterVarsity Press. You can learn more about his work and writing at www.matthewandmaggie.org.