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Judge forbids parents from raising child in Pagan faith

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Thomas E. Jones Jr.It's common for parents who divorce to disagree about the religious tradition in which to raise their child after the split. Hell, it's common during the marriage. But Thomas E. Jones Jr. of Indiana and his ex-wife both agreed that their child should be raised within the structure of Wicca, a polytheistic Pagan faith that emphasizes the existence and equality of both a Goddess and a God, and encourages respect for Mother Earth.

Well, it seems their judge, Cale J. Bradford, had different ideas. He put a line in their divorce decree stating that they couple were forbidden from raising their child in the Wiccan faith. Bradford noted that the boy was attending a local Catholic school, and that therefore the parents were damaging him by "raising" him in contradictory faiths. Both parents vociferously oppose the clause, and are appealing the line in the decree.

This boggles the mind. Has this judge never heard of non-Catholics attending Catholic school? My stepdaughter attended Catholic school for a year at a time when my wife and I were examining Buddhism. But that's irrelevant. Even if the judge disagreed with the parents' actions, he had no authority to restrict their rights as parents or their freedom of religion.

(Thanks to both Autumn and Chris for the link.)

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