Shielding child whose mother is Catholic from father's Wiccan lifestyle?

2008-01-23 Thread Volokh, Eugene
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

RE: Shielding child whose mother is Catholic from father's Wiccan lifestyle?

2008-01-23 Thread Ed Brayton
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