Judge: Parents can't teach pagan beliefs

[wvrevy]

Yeah, that article doesn't really change my feelings of this guy much.

Seriously, the guy ought to be removed from the bench.

 

[Galahad]

Yeah, that article doesn't really change my feelings of this guy much.

Seriously, the guy ought to be removed from the bench.

Me too.

Superior court judges are elected to a 6 year term. Not sure when his term is up.

 

[WDWHound]

I hate when people have to bring up extreme and rare examples to try to prove somebody wrong. How deep did you have to dig for this one?

Yup, I complain very vocally when people do this to Christians, and its just as wrong when people do it to other faiths. To compare a well established, ligitimate faith like Wicca to this cult of child abusers is simply wrong.

If we want people to respect our faith and beliefs, we MUST respect the faiths and beleifs of others. We don't have to agree, but we must treat each others faiths with respect. Unless it could be shown me that the Wiccan faith condones the type of behavior practiced by the cult you referenced (and I an certain it cant ), this comparison is completely invalid.

 

[shortbun]

Good grief! This judge really is a bad person to be a judge, he's got his head in the sand or elsewhere there is no light. Families at our school are Wicca and our neighbors are Wicca. A clerk at my local post office is Wicca and on and on. Hardly a cult and certainly mainstream at least in my neck of the woods.

 

[bicker]

I normally wouldn't foster such an extreme criticism of a sitting judge, but yes, this person is completely unqualified to administer the law. To have him on the bench reflects poorly on his state, and by extension, the nation. I believe he should not only be removed, but I believe he should be sanctioned for violating the Constitutional rights of the family he's persecuting.

If he doesn't have the legal foundation to remove the child from the home, to have the state revoke the parents' parental rights, then he has no foundation to make any other statement regarding the parents' discretion regarding their child's religious upbringing.

By the same token, the parochial school has every right to expel the child for any alleged disruption his alleged confusion may be causing at school.

 

[rigs32]

I tried to find the case, but it hasn't been recorded, as most family court cases are not.

Also, for those of you saying that there must be more to the story that we don't know, that may be true, but it doesn't matter. A court must explain the reasoning for their decision. By ruling as he did, the judge left himself open to being overturned.

If there HAD been a "valid" reason, like the child wanted to be Christian, the judge needed to include that in his reasoning. Becuase he didn't, I think it's more a case of the judge thinking that Wicca is "wrong" and tried to stop it.

As for a Wiccan attending Catholic school, non-Christians still often feel like outsiders in secular public schools that schedule events and vacations around Christian holidays. Heck, I had some teachers who gave me a hard time about missing school for the High Holidays, especially when they fell just after the start of the school year. Yet I didn't really need the time off at Christmas, as even if it did overlap with Hanukkah, it's not the same in terms of pomp.

 

[What the Heck]

Yeah, that article doesn't really change my feelings of this guy much.

Seriously, the guy ought to be removed from the bench.

I'm not sure which is scarier, the fact that this judge has decided they should have waited for his personal touch on the Constitution before it was created, or the fact that wvrevy and I are agreeing on something.

 

[lyeag]

I'm not sure which is scarier, the fact that this judge has decided they should have waited for his personal touch on the Constitution before it was created, or the fact that wvrevy and I are agreeing on something.