College Students Warned Against Courses That Subvert Family Values
By Jeff Johnson
October 23, 2006

(AgapePress) - The author of a guide called All American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-Fashioned Liberals, and People of Faith (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006) says many of today's colleges and universities undermine what Christian parents are trying to teach their children.

John Zmirak says he wrote All American Colleges, in part, to encourage students and parents to seek a traditional liberal arts education rather than specializing in many newer academic fields like "Women's Studies." He believes typical programs in this discipline and others like it are often characterized by vehement opposition to traditional beliefs and faith-based pro-family values.

Many times in such courses, "the norm of heterosexuality, of sacramental marriage, of parents raising children in an integral family -- that is held up as purely an institution of oppression," the college guide author notes. And what students are taught, he observes, is that "it's your duty as a scholar and an activist to help subvert the patriarchal family and to help subvert any religious traditions that reinforce the patriarchal family." the rest