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Activist Judges

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Egad!

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.

Surely this can’t withstand an appeal.

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3 Responses to “Activist Judges”

  1. #1 |  Masson's Blog |  May 26th, 2005 at 1:52 pm

    Judge Says Parents Can’t Teach Pagan Beliefs

    There has to be something else going on here. Otherwise, I just can’t fathom how a judge could think for a second he was acting constitutionally. Kevin Corcoran for the Indianapolis Star has an article entitled Judge: Parents can’t teach…

  2. #2 |  Outside The Beltway |  May 26th, 2005 at 2:16 pm

    Judge: Parents Can’t Teach Pagan Beliefs

    An Indiana judge has ordered a divorced couple not to raise him as a Wiccan.

    Judge: Parents can’t teach pagan beliefs (Indianapolis Star)

    An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge’s unusual order that prohibits him and …

  3. #3 |  Pagan Vigil... |  May 26th, 2005 at 7:19 pm

    Why people with nontraditional faiths in the U.S.

    Why people with nontraditional faiths in the U.S. spend a lot of time looking over their shoulder

    An Indianapolis judge made a provision in a divorce decree that neither parent could expose their son to Wicca