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 Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:29 am
IF anyone has been following the case from Indianapolis, where that guy wasn't allowed to share Wicca with his son, it was overrulled, so now he can!! YAY! For those of you who didn't know, this guy, as part of a divorce settlement, was told he had to shelter his son from "non mainstream religious beliefs" and he fought a court case against it, and now he won!
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:38 am
Ah, fantastic news. Good thing that America doesn't prove itself to be a hypocrite in this case. rofl
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Luck-In-Spades Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:44 am
w00t a good thing on America for once
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:13 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:00 pm
Im glad to hear that! Because, I (as a member of the military fighting to ensure the rights givin by the US Constitution) would be PISSED beyond belief if that court case was ruled any other way.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:52 pm
alrighty!
Go USA courts! your good for somthing!
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:58 pm
Well, for one thing, and I'm sure a lawyer brought it up, Wicca IS considered a mainstream belief now. It has a physical church and has been censused to have a number of practitioners to rival Islam and Hinduism. 3nodding Last I heard anyway.
But that's besides the point, a parent has the legal right to teach their child a family religion, and any contract that demands they can't is null and void at that point. I'm very glad to hear that the courts agreed.
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:34 am
Unfortunatly in America, sometimes no matter how many people are of a group, they still get no recognition...example= gay community...the present gov't is trying to pretend they don't exist, it was the same with disabled people a while ago....
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 8:52 am
Hoorah for the triumph of common freakin' sense. It'd of sucked if they'd decided the parents couldn't teach their kids Wicca. It would've been, "WTF, you can teach your kids some cult but not Wicca, an actual religion?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:54 pm
kyrana kirri Well, for one thing, and I'm sure a lawyer brought it up, Wicca IS considered a mainstream belief now. It has a physical church and has been censused to have a number of practitioners to rival Islam and Hinduism. 3nodding Last I heard anyway. Quote: not really here in Australia..... Christianity (Anglican, Catholic.. others) 69.% are still Christian... next is Islamic, Buddism.. and my book says that a Static 0.4% of the population claim to be Wicca... I was so pissed at this.. its quoted directly... (we are doing religtion in history) and i was wearing my necklace the other day and went into my school performing arts block, where this new group of people are becoming some sort of Christianity went up to me and said i should not believe in the devil, and if i start now jesus christ will forgive me for my sins of going against him.... GRRR!! I said, Paganism is not worshipping the devil thank-you very much....and walked out.. I supose that the thing that pisses me off, is that we are not a private or religious school, yet we have a cross, and and a minister guy and all these religious fundraisers..... i know 4 other people who are wiccan at my school... wait 5, coz there is the lady in the o9ffice
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:13 am
Dragon_lord27_27 alrighty! Go USA courts! your good for somthing! finally
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:05 pm
Hey! I remeber that. Yay for the guy!! 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:05 am
Whoot!
So happy for him and his son, that would have been terrible if he was forced to keep his son away from religion.
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:57 pm
That's a really odd situation. Question, Why wasn't he allowed to share Wicca with his son? Doesn't make sense really....
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:51 am
Kamiakume That's a really odd situation. Question, Why wasn't he allowed to share Wicca with his son? Doesn't make sense really.... It doesn't make much sense to me either. I mean, if the kid was raised Christian, and he was meant for a Wiccan path, he probably wouldn't like being Christian, and would eventually find Wicca and study it anyway. Just like if he was raised Wiccan, but it didn't feel right to him, he might go about converting to Christianity. At least if he was raised Wiccan, it would allow for more religious freedom, because Wiccans don't go about bashing other religions and saying they're evil (at least, we're not supposed to).
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