October 28, 2005

Blog 1, HSLDA ARMY 0
by Liza Sabater

The unholy matrimony of the HSLDA and US Army has been dissolved, at least on the GoArmy website.

It took this here blog to publish a huge rant about the spiritual armies of the HSLDA and for a writer of Home Education Magazine to drop a note to the appropriate US Army department for them to at least take down the HSLDA ad that was on their website. This is what it looked like :

Check out now the current GoArmy website.

The "issue" was brough to their attention by Daryl Cobranchi. He posted their response to his email at
Yahoo! Groups | HEM-Networking came this bit from the Army via Darryl Cobranchi :

Mr. Cobranchi,

Your email reference the goarmy on-line home school advertisement was forwarded to me for response.

Regarding the goarmy on-line home school advertisement, it was never the Army's intent to endorse any particular home school association over another but rather the intent was to inform all home school graduates that the Army now offers them the same education incentives as traditional high school
graduates.

Also, I would like to make it clear that all home school seniors and graduates regardless of their home school affiliation or not who meet the current Department of Defense home school definition are eligible to enlist in the Army.

This is the message we tried to emphasize and promote in our on-line advertisement. However from the issues you addressed in your email it appears that in our haste to get this message out as quickly as possible to as many home school students/graduates as possible we made an error in judgment. To address your concern we have already started to take corrective action. I can assure you that by the end of the day the link to hslda will be removed from the goarmy website to eliminate any perception that the Army is endorsing a particular vendor/association. Also, I have discussed further action with our Outreach Directorate and they plan to change the URL once we have collected/exhausted our print materials.

Thank you for making us aware of the problem/concern. If you have any other
questions please feel free to contact me.

v/r
Brian Labashosky
Chief, Education Division
United States Army Recruiting Command
(502) 626-XXXX

I do feel a bit conflicted about this though. I would have loved for that ad to stay if only because it proves the unholy alliance between the HSLDA and the US Army. Now, there is no transparency to their relationship --and anything can happen behind closed doors or in this case, scrubbed websites.

Posted by Liza Sabater in Christian Fundamentalism, Dominionism, Dominionists, Evangelical, Extremists, Homeschooling, Military
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