Former Home-Schooler Shuts Down Porn Pusher in Virginia - 19 Nov 2003
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...A home school graduate and current Christian college student who took on a pornographic video vendor and won says if people do not stand up for family and community values, then they cannot expect anything to change. Naomi Harralson, who was home-schooled, went on to attend Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia, where she is now a junior. School president Mike Farris has called Harralson a fine example of how the vision of home education is working. As a class project, the college student went after a local Movie Gallery and was successful in forcing the Purcellville video store to discontinue its practice of selling and renting pornographic movies -- something even local police and prosecutors had not been able to do. Harralson humbly credits prayer as the key to her success, and says, "I didn't know whether or not this would lead to any kind of victory, but that is no reason not to fight." The young collegian hopes her battle will encourage more ordinary people to speak up in defense of family values. "If we as citizens in our communities do not stand up and protect our own collective safety and our standards and quality of life, no one will," she says. The unique mission of Patrick Henry College is to train young Christian men and women to lead America and shape its culture with timeless biblical values -- something Harralson has already begun to do. |