Mike Far­ris’s Dis­turb­ing History
and Ques­tion­able Associations

Many think that Michael Far­ris is the good guy in the white hat who hero­ical­ly rides in on his white horse to save the day for home­school­ers. Many are not aware that Far­ris has a con­tro­ver­sial his­to­ry that goes back three decades.

Far­ris, head of Home­school Legal Defense Asso­ci­a­tion (HSLDA), is like a man run­ning in per­pet­u­al cir­cles. It is dif­fi­cult to fol­low where he is real­ly head­ing. His activ­i­ties have often seemed sus­pi­cious to those of us who oppose edu­ca­tion reform.

Below is a brief com­pi­la­tion of his cir­cuitous activ­i­ties. This sum­ma­ry is not a com­plete list by any means, but it is a start. You are respon­si­ble read­ers. Read this and eval­u­ate for your­self. Fol­low the links. Study the rab­bit trails. You won’t agree with every­thing you read, but you should learn enough to raise seri­ous questions.

Far­ris & Con-Con
Far­ris has a decades-long sup­port for a Con­sti­tu­tion­al Con­ven­tion. This despite his pub­lic rhetoric to the home­school­ing com­mu­ni­ty that he is an all-star patri­ot­ic defend­er of the orig­i­nal Amer­i­can Con­sti­tu­tion as authored by our hon­or­able fore­fa­thers. In fact, he is lead­ing the charge for a Con-Con, don­ning yet anoth­er white hat while he races around. Below are sev­er­al cur­rent links of interest:

• Pub­lius Hul­dah’s web­site: http://publiushuldah.wordpress.com
• Far­ris’s arti­cle on WND: “Why we need a con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ven­tion now”
• Arti­cle: “Michael Far­ris’ Iron­ic Plan To Remake The Supreme Court”
• Arti­cle: “EXTREMISM IN THE CON-CON ARTICLE V MOVEMENT CANNOT BE IGNORED”
• Arti­cle: “GRASPING AT POISON STRAWS — PART ONE — CONVENTION OF STATES”
• Arti­cle: “Home School­ing to the Res­cue?”

Far­ris & Parental Rights
Far­ris has a decades-long sup­port for var­i­ous ver­sions of a bill that would sharply cur­tail parental rights in the Unit­ed States. Done under the guise of a “parental rights” or “parental rights and respon­si­bil­i­ties” amend­ment, it fur­thers an agen­da to give the STATE a com­pelling inter­est in the life of a child. Far­ris’s cir­cuitous legal twists would become the edu­crats’ dream come true!

All of this was exposed dur­ing the 1990s in The Chris­t­ian Con­science mag­a­zine, which ran a series of expos­es about the orig­i­nal PRRA. Below are sev­er­al arti­cles that still remain archived on the Internet:

• What is the PRRA?
• Is Free­dom Burn­ing?
• Is the Cure Worse Than the Dis­ease?
• The Three-Legged Stool: “Impru­dent, Dan­ger­ous” and Unconstitutional
• Excerpts on the New Glob­al RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES
• Dr. Charles Rice’s Opin­ion of the PRRA & Sup­ple­men­tal Correspondence
• The Amer­i­can Cen­ter for Law and Jus­tice Input on PRRA
• Nation­al Right to Life Com­mi­tee Posi­tion Statement
• http://a2zhomeschooling.com/documents/hsh6.pdf
• Pub­lius Hul­dah’s arti­cle on the PRA (cur­rent)
• Far­ris’ response to her article
  Pub­lius Hul­dah’s response to Far­ris (note edi­tor’s comment).
  

  Far­ris’s group

 

 

 

 

Far­ris & Money$$$

See this web­site for key arti­cles detail­ing Far­ris and his prof­itable activities:

http://michaelfarrismoneymotive.org

Far­ris & Controversies
Far­ris is not loved by all. See the fol­low­ing web­sites and arti­cles detail­ing dis­trust and decep­tion. Some think that Far­ris runs cir­cles around peo­ple by engag­ing in cri­sis mon­ger­ing: i.e., hyp­ing a cri­sis and then propos­ing a pre-deter­mined solu­tion. This cri­sis mode keeps up his pub­lic image as the guy in the white hat rac­ing to save the day.

• Spend a few min­utes scour­ing this web­site: http://nheld.com
• Read this for a real eye-open­er about the decep­tion of HSLDA: http://nheld.com/CTSB930.htm
• Go to: http://hsislegal.com and just look at the main page. Fol­low all the blue links and you will end up with many anti-Far­ris arti­cles. This site is one of the major alter­na­tives to HSLDA. Fol­low the blue links on the right hand col­umn for refu­ta­tions of HSLDA’s prac­tice of cri­sis mongering. 
  

  Far­ris cri­sis mon­ger­ing? Watch video HERE

• Arti­cle: “Home­school­ing Under Fire”
  Arti­cle: “HSLDA Runs Roughshod in NH”

Far­ris & Extreme Patriarchy
Far­ris has long been asso­ci­at­ed with a fringe patri­archy agen­da pro­mot­ing a top-down dom­i­na­tion of women and their daugh­ters. This creepy move­ment is final­ly being exposed now that vic­tims are com­ing for­ward to tell their sto­ries. Extreme patri­archy was mar­ket­ed to the home­school­ers as a form of patri­o­tism, God-and-fam­i­ly, and “God’s order for the fam­i­ly.” How­ev­er, two of its top sales­men, both asso­ci­at­ed with Far­ris, have now been exposed as lech­er­ous old men — Bill Gothard and Doug Phillips. It is only now, when every­thing is com­ing out in the open, that Far­ris is attempt­ing to dis­tance him­self from all this.

Below are some VERY dis­turb­ing arti­cles. This is just the tip of a ter­ri­ble iceberg:

• Arti­cle: “Michael Far­ris, Patri­archy, and Doug Phillips: An Expose”
• Arti­cle: Dear Michael Far­ris, Sex­u­al Abuse Isn’t a “Basic Strength” That “Can Get Out of Control”
• Arti­cle: “Ori­gins of Botkin Syn­drome”
• Web­page: Lour­des Tor­res-Man­teufel vs Doug Phillips Law­suit Infor­ma­tion­al Resource Page
  

  Read this web­pageHERE

• Arti­cle: “The Pack­age: Bill Gothard’s Knowl­edge of Sin”
• Joshua Har­ris, an author, min­is­ter, and the well-known son of Far­ris’ asso­ciate Gregg Har­ris, was involved in a high pro­file cov­er-up of yet anoth­er pedophile sex­u­al scan­dal with­in C.J. Mahaney’s Sov­er­eign Grace Min­istries. See this web­site which has been doc­u­ment­ing the hor­rors: http://brentdetwiler.com
• See the web­site Mid­west Chris­t­ian Out­reach and search the site with the term “Gothard.” Don Veinot has been on top of the explod­ing Bill Gothard con­tro­ver­sies, and ear­li­er wrote a book about Gothard titled A Mat­ter of Basic Prin­ci­ples.

Far­ris & Extreme Dominionism
Mike Far­ris has a long­time asso­ci­a­tion with lead­ing Recon­struc­tion­ist Domin­ion­ists. Ear­ly on in his career he co-chaired the Coali­tion on Revival’s “The Chris­t­ian World View of Law” com­mit­tee. This fact is doc­u­ment­ed in Al Dager’s clas­sic 1990 book Vengeance Is Ours: The Church In Domin­ion (avail­able HERE) which includ­ed an entire chap­ter on the Coali­tion on Revival (COR). Many old-time edu­ca­tion researchers expe­ri­enced this group and its agen­da. COR was found­ed in 1984 by Dr. Jay Grim­stead and it pro­duced 17 “sphere doc­u­ments” artic­u­lat­ing an agen­da to seize domin­ion over the social, cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal are­nas of Amer­i­ca. Just google a few of the names of men lead­ing the steer­ing com­mit­tee: e.g., Gary DeMar, Bob Simonds, Den­nis Pea­cocke, Cal Beis­ner, Bob Mum­ford. You will find they all shared a dan­ger­ous dream of domin­ion. Read more:

• Arti­cle: “Domin­ion­ism and the Rise of Chris­t­ian Impe­ri­al­ism”
• Arti­cle: “What Is Domin­ion­ism?”
• Arti­cle: “Ron Paul Cur­ricu­lum Launched by Recon­struc­tion­ist Gary North and Neo-Con­fed­er­ate Thomas Woods”
• Arti­cle: “Rush­doony’s Theo­crat­ic Lib­er­tar­i­an­ism at Work in the Nation’s Statehouses
• Web­site with key arti­cle: “The Home­school Move­ment: Recon­struc­tion­ist Move­ment, Michael Far­ris, HSLDA, and Patrick Hen­ry Col­lege”
• Far­ris has been asso­ci­at­ed with Vision Forum and oth­er Domin­ion­ists: http://rethinkingvisionforum.org/vision-forum-affiliates/
• Arti­cle about COR: “Sev­en Spheres of Influ­ence”

How did you like the Far­ris wheel ride? Pret­ty dis­turb­ing, right? Obvi­ous­ly, this post could go on and on. As said above, there is a 30-year his­to­ry of Far­ris and his activ­i­ties. This post bare­ly scratch­es the sur­face. Read­ers are encour­aged to do their own home­work. Get the facts!