Home School Movement Needs Metal Detectors, Says Pat Robertson

Philly IMC
Nov. 18, 2005

VIRGINIA BEACH, Vir. - Calling the shooting deaths of Michael and Cathryn Borden "the home schooling movement's very own Columbine," televangelist Pat Robertson urged parents who home school their children to install metal detectors in their houses.
The Bordens, both 50, who home schooled each of their five children, resided near the Amish-country village of Lititz, Pennsylvania. Early Sunday morning David G. Ludwig, 18, who had been dating the Bordens' fourteen-year-old daughter, Kara Beth, shot and killed her parents over a curfew dispute.

"We can no longer afford to assume every home schooled pupil walks with Jesus in his heart," said Robertson. "The presence of a metal detector in the Bordens' home might have prevented this tragedy."

After fleeing the school-slash-scene-of-the-crime, David Ludwig and Kara Beth Borden headed west. The subjects of an amber alert, they were apprehended by police in Belleville, Indiana.

As every home schooled teenager knows, Belleville is the site of the house where Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), the twenty-third president of the United States (1889-1893), accepted the Republican Party's nomination for the presidency in 1888 and lived until his death.

Indiana police said they were not permitted to question Borden because she is only fourteen. Therefore, they don't know whether she was abducted by Ludwig or was his willing companion.

Kimberly Soze, 15, writing on a blog forum dedicated to the Christian rock group Pillar, said: "like i dont think k. beth wuld have any reason to go along, y'know . . . after all, schul was all ready canceled . . ."












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