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[filkertom]

You should check out this entry in huskiebear's LJ. Technically work safe, but you may scream and start breaking things.

Comments

[falconcat.livejournal.com]

Insert numerous obscene words here.

What ever happened to freedom of religion??? And why isn't the media all over this? grrrrr.....

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

It's been almost 40 years since I read Gore Vidal's Julian so I don't remember the exact quote he gave the Emperor. Something like: The Christians don't hate me for persecuting them; they hate me for stopping them from presecuting everyone else.

[autumnreign.livejournal.com]

You know what? It doesn't matter how much power you have, you can't keep parents from teaching their children what they believe. All these diverse religions and customs could not have survived if you could. Look at the Catholics! Christian, yes, but they still celebrate all the old pagan customs because people failed to keep parents from teaching them to children back then too. They can make it difficult, even terrifying to try to raise you child in a non-mainstream religion, but they cannot stop it. And, in the end, no matter what they are taught, the children will ultimately grow up and make their own decisions.

We will exercise our free will whatever the consequences. So let them try and stop us. They will fail as they always have.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

As a violation of freedoms both of religion and speech, the ruling can't help but be ruled unconstitutional, or else become a landmark in the descent of the US into a theocratic dictatorship.

Me, I'm rooting for the former. Even down ten runs in the bottom of the ninth, democracy and decency have a chance to win this thing.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

I just read about this on nonfluffypagans. There are no words for how horrified and revolted I am. That judge needs to be taken off the bench.

[djonn]

Taking the judge off the bench won't rein in the "Domestic Relations Counseling Bureau", which made the recommendation the judge adopted. My sense is that the real source of unhealthy bias in the case is the DRCB, not the court system.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

My take: http://www.livejournal.com/users/hitchkitty/50689.html

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

*restrains impulse to go all wiccan road warrior, 'cause hey, i can be in indiana in half an hour, tops* that is beyond absurd. and if it were any religion other than wiccan, it would be all over the news and found SO unconstitutional SO fast that the judge's head would spin until it unscrewed itself and fell off. hey, there's an idea...
no, i'll be good. besides, i have a con to drive to in the morning. no sense tiring myself out on something the family's lawyer should be able to take care of.

[indyellen.livejournal.com]

It hit the AP wire: Divorced Wiccans fight decree shielding son from their beliefs (http://www2.indystar.com/articles/0/237913-8500-127.html)

I never thought I'd see the day when I'd agree with a sentence like this from someone like this in a news article:

" 'The parents have the right to raise their child in that faith, just as I have the right to raise my child in the Christian faith,' said Micah Clark, executive director of the American Family Association of Indiana."

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

The part of that article that jumped out at me was:

'...both Jones and his ex-wife are pagans who send their son, Archer, to a Catholic elementary school.
"Ms. Jones and Mr. Jones display little insight into the confusion these divergent belief systems will have upon Archer as he ages," the report said.'

What kind of [fill in the blank] necessarily equates variety of experience and increased understanding of choices with "confusion"?