Demagogue

A Superior court judge has intervened in a divorce case, taking away the right of both parents to provide religious instruction to thier child. This outrageous invasion of parental rights is yet another slam by an out-of-control activist judiciary that hates Christianity. Such a thing could only happen in California... Oh wait.

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.

Bradford refused to remove the provision after the 9-year-old boy's outraged parents, Thomas E. Jones Jr. and his ex-wife, Tammie U. Bristol, protested last fall.

Ridiculous. Thanks to Wonkette for the dose of morning outrage.