Funk Babblings

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.