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By Brandon Lewis –
On Friday March 14th, a Tennessee Homeschool Parent called into the “Matt Murphy Show” to advocate for parental rights and his support for the “Free Act.”
This pro-homeschooling bill, endorsed by state and national homeschooling advocates, died 3/11/25 in the House Education Administration Subcommittee over activist judges’ concerns parents would certainly abuse their children without any state oversight.
While the caller made the point that parents had a God-given right to educate their children without state government interference, Matt Murphy insisted that less freedom for parents and more control for the government was best in this situation.
The caller also cited the sad state of government education in academics, morals, and use of taxpayer money. Further making the point that 100% government-control had not made the situation better.
Further, the academic and abuse statistics were put forth to Mr. Murphy, referencing repeated studies that Homeschoolers out-performed government school students in both categories.
Finally, the caller emphatically argued that more government control and less freedom for parents was not a conservative position.
Perhaps feeling he was losing this argument in front of his Conservative talk-radio audience, things got heated. Finally, the call came to an abrupt halt…
“Go home and beat your kids!,” Matt Murphy exclaimed – and then hung up on the caller.
That caller was yours truly, Brandon Lewis, publisher of the Tennessee Conservative news.
Guess what? It’s par for the course… so many politicians and talking heads speak in conservative sound bites. However, when push comes to shove, they love government control and safety more than they love individual liberty.
I do not. Our founders did not. And, I will always fight for more freedom.
Freedom, sadly, comes with consequences. There is not a single freedom extended to a Tennessee resident that may not one day be abused. From the Second Amendment to Freedom of Speech, they all come with risk.
However, freedom is worth it. Especially for parents. Real freedom, not fake, government-controlled freedom. Not RINO-lite freedom… Conservative freedom.
It is time parents were allowed to exercise their God-given rights to educate their children without the same government which destroyed public education infecting the last bastions of effective, moral instruction.
Matt Murphy disagrees… but I don’t care. When you stand on Conservative principle, the slings and arrows will come.
And I’m happy to take them – for all Tennessee parents.
