A recent New York state appellate court decision upheld a father's
petition for overnight visitation, but stressed that this was done only because
the father and his fiancee agreed to refrain from exposing the child to any
ceremony connected to their religious practices, and because the
The more I dig into cases similar to this the more I think that judges
should not be allowed to consider religion at all. It's just too ripe for
abuse, too open for a judge to be prejudiced against one party to the case
because of their religion or (more commonly) their lack of it. I am
astonished