Maine Court Upholds Restrictions On Mother Taking Daughter To Calvary Chapel
In a case headed to the Supreme Court, the State of Maine has ruled in favor of a father who didn’t want his daughter taken to Calvary Chapel by his former wife. When I saw this story moving through the courts, I thought it was a simple freedom of religion case and the father would and should lose.
Having read the full ruling, I get why he sued.
In typical fundy fashion, because the father doesn’t agree with the moms religious proclivities, the church brands him an “enemy”
The child has much anxiety over her father’s eternal fate, especially when told over and over again that the Rapture is imminent.
Though not unique to Calvary Chapel, these are the churches I would not want anyone I cared about attending.
Fear based, manipulative, and specialists in hating your neighbor…we’ll see if the highest court in the land agrees.
“In typical fundy fashion, because the father doesn’t agree with the moms religious proclivities, the church brands him an “enemy.”
Nice going, church! Real Christian love there.
“The court found that Bickford has essentially
abdicated her independent decision-making to the church.”
Guarantee that it’s written into the custody stipulation not to disparage the other parent. It’s written into mine though mom did it plenty, (and she’d get frustrated that the kids defended me, lol) but not like this. That mom approved of the church doing this, especially in a public service in front of the child is EVIL.
Guess we’ll have to change the lyrics from that old Christian singalong to:
“They’ll know we are Christians by our lawsuits.”
When they try and scare little kids with left behind rapture movies I can see why this happened.
I read the ruling and it’s as I thought; the parents divorce agreement required they work together to decide various areas of raising their child. The two the failed to agree upon were religious training and healthcare (I think I read this correctly).
Here’s my thoughts:
– I really don’t care which church, religion or lack there of this ruling is about.
– The couple failed in marriage and no matter how they wrote the divorce agreement, how could they be expected to succeed in working together after the divorce.
– This ruling will be seen as a religious issue and yet it is a people issue. The subject of religion is just the click bait/side show.
– I would write the same thing if the church was Catholic or even The Satanic Temple.
These two people thought somehow they could write an agreement of divorce between them and life would continue happily ever after. What happened was reality and not a fairy tale; if it wasn’t religion the two would have found something else to end up in court over.
The article also shows the continued need of people to salivate over the failures and issues of others. And yes, guilty as charged because I clicked and read it.
The founders of our Nation wisely agreed not to involve questions of religion in our Constitution.
Nor did they disallow the practice of one religion over another.
In my opinion, the high court(s) of Maine have over stepped their bounds.