patgund | This is stupid

I first saw this on

jkusters LJ, as well as at Wren's Nest.

To say the Judge stepped over the line is an understatement. "Pole-vaulted" over it is a better description. I can't see how this ruling *won't* be overturned on appeal.

Judge: Parents can't teach pagan beliefs

"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."

Let me restate that. Neither of the parents were the one who objected to Paganism, it was the *judge* who made this provision in the divorce decree.