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I'm not a political blogger
May. 27th, 2005 12:11 pmIn fact, I barely qualify as someone who keeps a livejournal, seeing as how my posting rate seems to be about once/month now.
So what follows is not the start of a trend.
With that said, here's a story to make you livid.
Summary for those who don't want to click through: man and woman get married, have kid, get divorced nine years later. The parents both practice Wicca, and agree that they wish to continue practicing Wicca although they also agree that they want their son to attend a Catholic school. The divorce judge orders the parents not to expose their son to any "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals," apparently since the dissonance caused by going to Catholic school while practicing that evil Wicca stuff at home would not be in the best interests of the child. (Note that this is not a fight between the parents about what religion to raise the boy as; they both agree on Wicca, and the judge is saying "no")
I've been trying several times to get out a post that adequately conveys the struck-speechless shock/rage/denial this evokes. I write out a few paragraphs and get bogged down. I've already run into Godwin's Law three times, though the last may not count unless a reference to "A Handmaid's Tale" is equivalent to a Nazi reference. Instead, then, I'll just leave you with your own sputtering and rising blood pressure.
So what follows is not the start of a trend.
With that said, here's a story to make you livid.
Summary for those who don't want to click through: man and woman get married, have kid, get divorced nine years later. The parents both practice Wicca, and agree that they wish to continue practicing Wicca although they also agree that they want their son to attend a Catholic school. The divorce judge orders the parents not to expose their son to any "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals," apparently since the dissonance caused by going to Catholic school while practicing that evil Wicca stuff at home would not be in the best interests of the child. (Note that this is not a fight between the parents about what religion to raise the boy as; they both agree on Wicca, and the judge is saying "no")
I've been trying several times to get out a post that adequately conveys the struck-speechless shock/rage/denial this evokes. I write out a few paragraphs and get bogged down. I've already run into Godwin's Law three times, though the last may not count unless a reference to "A Handmaid's Tale" is equivalent to a Nazi reference. Instead, then, I'll just leave you with your own sputtering and rising blood pressure.