This is stupid

[patgund]

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.

Comments

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

Man, just when I think we're living in a more enlightened age...

[jkusters]

Huh, where've you been for the last five years? I wanna go there.

JOhn.

[angelique69.livejournal.com]

With the Shrub in office you thought this WHY? He's been putting fundamentalist Christian judges into the Supreme Court for 5 years now. Blessed Be, Angelique

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Actually he hasn't managed to stack the supreme court yet. He's done his best to pack the district courts though.

[angelique69.livejournal.com]

Good point, Patrick, but he does keep trying! I thought he had gotten at least one in there though. Blessed Be, Angelique

[tepintzin.livejournal.com]

Hm, I spy with my eye a judgement that will be reversed very quickly.

[ghostlyviolet.livejournal.com]

Hello, darling!

Thanks for posting the link to this article. Reading it no doubt sent my blood pressure up a few points, but it's important to know about--like then Gov. Bush's claim during the controversy over the coven at Ft. Hood concerning Wicca that "I don't think that's a bona fide religion." I emailed the article to four friends, two of them professors at my university. (One of the profs is Pagan friendly and has a PhD in religious philosophy from Harvard. I'm sure she'll share it with some other academics who ought to see it.)

*hugs & kisses*
Vi