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   Editor's note: Tuesday afternoon the U.S. Department of Homeland   
   Security announced that the Romeike family will not be deported.   
      
   Lest someone broach the issue of Obama's filthy illegal Kenyan   
   family members living in the USA in direct defiance of US   
   immigration laws.   
      
   Christians in an east Tennessee community are vowing to engage   
   in civil disobedience if the Obama administration initiates   
   deportation proceedings against a Southern Baptist family from   
   Germany who sought asylum in the United States so that they   
   could home school their children.   
      
   “It may require civil disobedience with this bunch,” said Rep.   
   Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), who represents the congressional district   
   where the Romeike family lives.   
      
   “I am furious about this,” the congressman told me. “You’ve got   
   law-abiding people who did everything right who simply want to   
   home school their kids. We used to be that great shining city on   
   a hill. There’s some rust on that city if we are doing free   
   people this way.”   
      
   Roe was among many Tennesseans outraged over the Supreme Court   
   decision not to hear the Romeike’s appeal to stay in the United   
   States. The Christian couple sought asylum in 2008 after they   
   fled Germany so they could home school their children.   
      
   The family was initially granted asylum, but the Obama   
   administration objected – claiming that German laws that outlaw   
   homeschooling do not constitute persecution.   
      
   “The goal in Germany is for an open, pluralistic society,” The   
   Justice Department wrote in a 2013 legal brief. “Teaching   
   tolerance to children of all backgrounds helps to develop the   
   ability to interact as a fully functioning citizen in Germany.”   
      
   Rep. Roe told me the Justice Department needs to “butt out.”   
      
   “I don’t know what the Germans are thinking, but we’re not   
   Germany,” he said. “I don’t want to be Germany. I don’t want to   
   be Europe. I want to be America. And right now we’re not acting   
   very much like the America I know with the administration we   
   have.”   
      
   Roe called Attorney General Eric Holder “one of the most   
   dangerous people in the country” and called his department’s   
   assault on the Romeike family “appalling and worrisome.”   
      
   “I don’t see this as a Democrat or Republican issue,” he said.   
   “It’s an issue of religious freedom. By golly, if we don’t stand   
   for what, what do we stand for?”   
      
   Michael Farris, the chairman of the Home School Legal Defense   
   Association, is representing the family. He said their future in   
   the United States rests with the Obama administration.   
      
   “President Obama has the ability to say they can stay,” Farris   
   said. “He can take that pen and piece of paper and make this   
   right today.”   
      
   But since that hasn’t happened there are two possible outcomes   
   for the Romeikes and their six children.   
      
   Farris said the administration could just ignore the family and   
   let them live in peace. But the government could also file an   
   order of deportation. If that happens, Farris promised a   
   vigorous fight.   
      
   “If they come after this family and seek deportation orders, we   
   will be there with our litigation team fighting every step of   
   the way,” he said. “It sounds like their friends and neighbors   
   will be there in a show of solidarity and stand in the gate and   
   prohibit the government from acting.”   
      
   And Farris isn’t speaking figuratively. A number of the   
   Romeike’s neighbors in Morristown, Tenn. told me they are   
   prepared to engage in civil disobedience should government   
   agents try to deport the family.   
      
   “The Romeikes have become a part of our family,” said Dean Haun,   
   the pastor of First Baptist Church of Morristown, where the   
   family attends. “I don’t think there’s any question that there   
   will be some people who will be willing to stand with them to   
   the very end – even if it means our imprisonment.”   
      
   The Southern Baptist pastor said should that day come, he would   
   be counted among the local residents willing to go to jail to   
   save the family from deportation.   
      
   “If that’s what it took, yes,” the pastor said. “This is an   
   assault in the face of Christianity in America.”   
      
   “This is one of those situations where we are just outraged,” he   
   said. “We are angered.”   
      
   He said the Romeikes are beloved in the east Tennessee town –   
   where Uwe is the church pianist as well as an ordained deacon.   
      
   “They are not on welfare,” he said. ‘They are not trying to live   
   off our system. They are very productive, godly, Christian   
   people.”   
      
   Roger "Sing" Oldham, a spokesman for the Southern Baptist   
   Convention, told me he was deep distressed by the Obama   
   administration’s actions.   
      
   “I’m not sure what’s more chilling – that this administration   
   views their presence in rural east Tennessee as a threat to our   
   nation’s economic and political well being or that this   
   administration lobbied to deport this family to a nation   
   determined to coercively indoctrinate the children in government   
   sanctioned ‘tolerance’ training,” Oldham said.   
      
   Oldham said the case is simply perplexing.   
      
   “This family is the antithesis of this administration’s   
   political agenda – a heterosexual married Christian couple   
   desiring to teach their biblical values to well-grounded   
   children,” he said. “For whatever reason, our government does   
   not want them in our nation.”   
      
   State Rep. Tillman Goins told me the community is “up in arms.”   
      
   “Everybody in Morristown knows the Romeike family,” he said.   
   “You have a family who is doing it the legal way, taking every   
   legal step they can to ask to come to this country and to   
   participate as citizens in this country – only to be persecuted   
   by the United States.”   
      
   Goins introduced a resolution calling on Tennessee’s   
   congressional delegation to defend the family.   
      
   “I don’t know if all religious liberty is under attack in this   
   country,” he said. “It seems like Christian values are under   
   attack more than any other religion.”   
      
   Should the day come when the immigration agents show up to take   
   the family away, Goins said he would meet them at the front door.   
      
   “Let’s hope that it doesn’t get to that point,” he said. “(But)   
   should it come down to it – absolutely.”   
      
   And Morristown Mayor Danny Thomas would be standing alongside   
   the state lawmaker.   
      
   “I can tell you this – I would stand with them,” he said. “There   
   has to be a way to work this out before it ever comes to that.”   
      
   The mayor said there are no finer folks in his town than the   
   Romeikes.   
      
   “They are good citizens without a doubt,” he said. ‘I don’t   
   think you’ll find anyone with a better work ethic – kind, gentle   
   people. I know that he has deep religious beliefs and he wants   
   to stay and so does his family. I would hope our country would   
   be able to accommodate them. They are an asset to our country.”   
      
   Farris predicted that if the Romeikes are deported, it would   
   spark a movement among religious liberty supporters.   
      
   “If they come for this family, it’s going to ignite a movement   
   that’s going to be the same as when they told courageous Rosa   
   Parks to go to the back of the bus and she wouldn’t go,” Farris   
   said.   
      
      
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