aint no religion like old tymey religion
A big fat, whoa:
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.
posted by Chris Dykstra @ 4:54 PM |
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Being someone who is Catholic, I don't agree with many tenents of the wiccan beliefs. However, I find it deeply distrubing that a court would go to these lengths to limit personal freedom. If one parent were advocating for teaching wicca and the other were advocating Christianity, then I could see a judge coming in to mediate the problem.
If anything this sounds like an "activist judge" to me, something the craziest of Republicans despise. I sure hope the introduce some Constitutional Amendments to protect the free expression of religion and limit the ability of the government to legislate what religion people practice. Wait a second that sounds a lot like something I've read before....hmmm....
I find this highly disturbing, being my husband and I are both pagan, end even though we are exposing our boys to "mainstream" religion, they are also being heavilly exposed to the pagan culture. I also have problems with this being both parents are pagan, so what the hell else would the be practicing in front of their child?!?!
Davidd, coming from a divorced family, and seeing the number of divorced families that do not function well at all, having a judge try to mediate when it comes to religious teaching if the parents disagreed would really not work. Trust me on this. If nothing else, and the parents couldn't agree, let the child abstain from any religious teaching untill they(the child) were old enough to choose for themselves, sinse teaching a specific relegion at a very young age is more for the parent than the child anyways.
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