Lydia,
stop being such a wimp and support armed rebellion and revolution.
This is what it ultimately entails. The 1950's style individualism is inadequate to
the (self-appointed) task of fighting the 10th crusade.

The cry of political equality is born of Envy, as the cry of economic equality. The cry of weak, the slothful and deficient men. As there shall always be rich among men, there shall always be rulers among men.

The Church, when it came to power, closed down the pagan temples. She extinguished religious liberty whenever and wherever it attained power. For She is a Ruler. The only difference from a Moslem or a Communist State is that Church is the True Ruler.

Thus why the horror of burning books?. Singer's books should be burned. Church in Her heyday would have burned Singer himself.

I say again, to homeschool is an act of sedition against the State. For the State is not defined by violence (as libertarians falsely) maintain but by reason. And to teach a child to reason contrary to the State is to rear a subversive.