Parents can't teach pagan beliefs...

[Bzzzz]

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An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge's unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals."

The parents practice Wicca, a contemporary pagan religion that emphasizes a balance in nature and reverence for the earth.

Cale J. Bradford, chief judge of the Marion Superior Court, kept the unusual provision in the couple's divorce decree last year over their fierce objections, court records show. The order does not define a mainstream religion.




http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/NEWS01/505260481

[DrDebug]

1. Freedom of religion?

Or did we forget about that as well. I mean it's the Constitution which was written a long time ago, so maybe the judge never read it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. True enough.

[Bzzzz]

6. What is ...

the Domestic Relations Counseling Bureau(Faith ba$ed?) and whom the hell do they and this judge think they are? Catholics are starting to get a tad aggresive don't you think? Part of this is punishment for divorce...

[dbonds]

2. This has to be unconstitutional.

[lazarus]

3. it depends

People forget that family courts are the province of judges who don't really give a damn about the Constitution, fairness, or anything else beyond their petty bigotries.

[BattyDem]

5. If both he and his ex-wife ...

want to raise their child in a particular religion, the judge has no right to say a f*cking thing about it! His decision was supposedly based on the fact that the boy attends parochial school. So ... instead of letting the school decide whether a non-Christian child should attend, the judge has decided that the parents have to change their kid's religion. THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS LEGAL! :grr:

[GOPBasher]

7. Welcome to the United Theocracy of America.

It's fun here. Don't be a non-Christian fag. We'll kill you. God bless our glorious Bush! :-)

[El Fuego]

8. Scary stuff.

The wave of the future, I'm afraid.