Thursday, May 26, 2005

More wonderful news for the first amendment

Yes.. we found out yesterday that Italy was out to mortally wound the first amendment.. but now we have anoter case in INDIANA
Judge: Parents can't teach pagan beliefs
Father appeals order in divorce decree that prevents couple from exposing son to Wicca.

By Kevin Corcoran
kevin.corcoran@indystar.com
May 26, 2005


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.


yes now i bet your saying "man i didn't know Indiana was the bible belt" well other then being the founding place of the modern Klan you'd be wrong... but the laws of Indiana on the other hand

The following is an excerpt from the Indiana Bill of Rights, Article 1, as printed in the online law library:

"Section 3. No law shall, in any case whatever, control the free exercise and enjoyment of religious opinions, or interfere with the rights of conscience.

Section 4. No preference shall be given, by law, to any creed, religious society, or mode of worship; and no person shall be compelled to attend, erect, or support, any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry, against his consent.
(History: As Amended November 6, 1984)."


yes folks we have another Judicial Tyrant who seems to think he is above the law.

but come on you have to have a reason right.. the ideological cousin of CFS (formerly HRS) ... yes those people who let children die, go missing, and be abused by perverts gave the judge this following pearl of wisdom

"There is a discrepancy between Ms. Jones and Mr. Jones' lifestyle and the belief system adhered to by the parochial school. . . . Ms. Jones and Mr. Jones display little insight into the confusion these divergent belief systems will have upon (the boy) as he ages," the bureau said in its report.

But Jones, 37, Indianapolis, disputes the bureau's findings, saying he attended Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis as a non-Christian.


Yes.. Catholic schools have not only lots of non christian students, they often have lots of non catholic students. Now a judge with a brain should have seen this

now surely the media would get this one right you say

Indiana law generally allows parents who are awarded physical custody of children to determine their religious training; courts step in only when the children's physical or emotional health would be endangered.


wait wait.. now What did Indiana's bill of rights say?
"Section 3. No law shall, in any case whatever, control the free exercise and enjoyment of religious opinions, or interfere with the rights of conscience.

Section 4. No preference shall be given, by law, to any creed, religious society, or mode of worship; and no person shall be compelled to attend, erect, or support, any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry, against his consent.
(History: As Amended November 6, 1984).


yes the newspaper can't even look up what the law actually says

so lets hear it for Indiana

Dumb reporters
Dumb Buercrats
and a really dumb judge

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