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Scary Indianapolis Judge

posted by [personal profile] rfunk at 06:05pm on 26/05/2005 under , ,
The latest entry in the who-can-be-the-more-backward-state rivalry between Ohio and Indiana....

"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.

Apparently the judge is concerned about the discrepancy between the pagan parenting and the Catholic school the kid attends.

The comments on this over at Daily Kos are also interesting, among other reasons, for showing that lots of non-Christians go to Catholic schools, and also that fundamentalists exist even in "non-mainstream" religions.
Mood:: 'irritated' irritated
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posted by [identity profile] ceolnamara.livejournal.com at 10:47pm on 26/05/2005
Wow, that's really strange. I can't really comprehend it, but that's the judiciary system for you.
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Grrrrrr....

posted by [identity profile] taokodr.livejournal.com at 01:23pm on 27/05/2005
Grrrrr.......
Speaking as a believer,
here are two quotes that work for me at times like this...
take from them what you will:

"Christians are the best argument against Christianity"
-- Unknown

"Personally its not God I dislike, its his fan club I cant stand"
-- XnD (from Bash.org)

Peace!
GB!
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Re: Grrrrrr....

posted by [identity profile] nicosomething.livejournal.com at 03:00pm on 27/05/2005
The fan club comment, I need that on a shirt. Beautiful!
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posted by [identity profile] nicosomething.livejournal.com at 03:00pm on 27/05/2005
Odd that the court would make more of an issue about it than the school is likely to do. Catholic schools don't require their students to be Christian. They do require students take religion class and I'm sure that some teachers are less than friendly to Wicca, but compared to other Christian religions the Catholics are less likely to give them grief. When I went to Catholic school growing up *shudder* there were plenty of non-Catholics in my classes. Most were still Christian, but I knew a few agnostic or athiests.

It boggles the mind how things like this happen. It should get knocked down pretty hard on appeal, especially since both sides of the divorce are against it. What really boggles the mind is that this specific court thinks that it is in the child's best interests not to be exposed to a variety of ideas, that the child isn't capable of evaluating his own beliefs and shouldn't learn more than one way of thinking.
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posted by [identity profile] wishesofastar.livejournal.com at 09:02pm on 29/05/2005
This is very confusing. If neither of the parents have a problem with the kid learning their religion, I don't even see how the matter came up in the proceedings. That judge should certainly be booted from his/her position. This is just madness.
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