June 09, 2005
File Under: Wicca Under Constant Attack
from - smijer
I know it's old news... but I just noticed Brainwise doing a post on it, and I thought this would be a good way to keep it in the archives. The Christian Majority in Charge of the Government is under attack because sometimes a school board or judge makes the wrong call on issues of separation of church and state... We need an archive of all the other people who are "under attack" when something like that happens.
Judge rules parents cannot teach their own religion to child.
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.
A judge who tries to tell me what religion I can teach my children is just itching for a fight. I hope he's disbarred.
::Posted by smijer at June 9, 2005 08:57 PM