I'm not a political blogger

[dtm]

In 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.

Comments

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that. Did you read the article I linked to today? Godwin's Law may, in fact, be part of the problem. Because invoking the Nazis ends meaningful communication, we can't adequately discuss what's happening in the US today...

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

But now that Owens and Brown are appeals court judges, we'll doubtless see an end to this sort of judicial activism, since judicial activism is abhorred by the right wing.

[dtm]

In a just world, the end result of this would be that the judge would be impeached for such an amazingly flagrant abdication of the first amendment.

In the world we live in, the best we can hope for is that this provision is thrown out loudly on summary judgement.