(WND)—A judge in Maine stunningly has ruled that a mother is forbidden from taking her daughter to church. Any church that her ex-boyfriend does not approve.
And the legal team at Liberty Counsel has confirmed it launched an immediate effort to overturn the decision that actually violates multiple court precedents. The report from Liberty Counsel uses pseudonyms to keep the identities of the mom and child private.
What happened is common: Mom and dad had a daughter 12 years ago, they broke up, even before the daughter was born, and “everything was fine” until the mom and daughter started attending church.
“When [the daughter] began wearing T-shirts emblazoned with Bible verses to her father’s house, Mark rushed to the local family court, declaring those shirts to be ‘religious paraphernalia,’” the team reported.
He claimed being baptized was “indoctrination.”
And a large part of his complaint was that the church, Calvary Chapel of Bangor, “teaches the [B]ible chapter by chapter, verse by verse.”
To push his own religious ideology, he “hired a former California State University sociology professor to testify that Calvary Chapel is a ‘cult,’” Liberty Counsel confirmed, with a demand the court ban the mom from taking the daughter to church.
Then the judge stepped up to the campaign.
“Outrageously, the anti-God judge in this case was more than happy to oblige. The judge spent 11 pages excoriating Calvary Chapel of Bangor, and quoting a former Marxist sociology professor’s assertions that Bible-teaching churches like Calvary Chapel are ‘Moses Cults’ that ‘harm’ children. The judge ruled that [the mom’s] religious beliefs ‘eclipsed her ability to make decisions that are in [her daughter’s] best interests,’ Because [the mom] had testified that her daughter’s belief in God was ‘more important than anything.’”
He demanded the mom never take the daughter to Calvary Chapel – “or ANY church that does not meet [the dad’s] approval – ever again.”
Liberty Counsel explained Calvary Church of Bangor was founded by Pastor Ken Graves, a “God-honoring man” and does teach the Bible.
In fact, Liberty Counsel defended the church when “Gov. Janet Mills threatened to arrest and imprison anyone who attended church during the COVID panic.”
The legal team cited the U.S. Constitution, “hundreds of years of legal precedents, and even the Maine Supreme Court” which all say the government may not prevent a parent from raising a child in his or her own faith.
The judge, apparently believing he could reject all of those standards, issued a decision “to fit her apparent personal animus against God, even as she stripped [the mom] of her legal right to take her daughter to church.:”
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Who says the kid must attend a church? Can she and her mother not read scriptures at home, or.. and this would infuriate the judges in the case.. invite the pastor/s over for an in-home meeting? Were I a pastor in her area, I’d certainly pop round to do just that.
This is outrageous.
The first amendment prohibits this kind of abuse. A country founded on religious freedom is being abused so easily and having officials “agree” to letting it happen.
Civil war is coming if this and other abuses are not corrected
The hatred of Christ is strong with them.
Evil will be called good, and good will be called evil
I am hoping for these judges who make law from their bench, without regard to the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, are held accountable, removed both from the bench and from the practice in the field, investigated for criminal acts and punished as harshly as the common man.
Public servants make many promises in their clamoring for office (which they usually soon forget), but they take only ONE OATH and that is to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States of America.
Just as a reminder to this judge…
Bill of Rights, Amendment 1 – Freedom of Religion, Speech, and the Press
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
“O my people rybaudes oppresse the, and wemen haue rule of the. O my people, thy leaders deceyue the, and treade oute the waye of thy fotesteppes.”
—Isaiah 3:12, Matthews Bible 1537
And you thought the Tribulation would be delayed when Trump took office.; There are plenty of demons around to make up for the Biden Administration. We’re still on schedule for the Rapture. Demons like these will just hasten it.
(hear the Lord is expanding the Lake of Fire. HE did an audit and the news is not good for the hell bound.
“The judge…” So who in the Hades is “The Judge”?
Appeal. Simple as that. Just go over the lesbian’s head, and leave the father broke and miserable for daring.