Activist Judges
Thursday, May 26th, 2005An 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.
TheAgitator.com

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