re: Court Rules 12-Year-Old's Mother Cannot Read Her the Bible, Take Her to Church

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So, in your view, it is totally acceptable for the court to favor Christianity over a non-Christian religion, but unacceptable for the court to favor one Christian denomination over another?

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If you agree with the founding fathers, then yes it is.

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In his discussion of freedom of religion in his monumental Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Father of American Jurisprudence Joseph Story clarified the meaning of the First Amendment with regard to the priority of Christianity:

[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of government to foster, and encourage it among all the citizens and subjects….

Indeed, in a republic, there would seem to be a peculiar propriety in viewing the Christian religion, as the great basis, on which it must rest for its support and permanence, if it be, what it has ever been deemed by its truest friends to be, the religion of liberty.

Probably at the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration, the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship. [I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of government to foster, and encourage it among all the citizens and subjects….

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Story continues:

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the real object of the [First] amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government(1833, 3:728, emp. added).

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George Mason, the Father of the Bill of Rights, wrote:

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All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others

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So, yes, I agree with the founding fathers that Christianity is the supreme religion of the land, and that religious freedom as described in the Constitution was meant to make all Christians sects equal and above both judaism and islam.

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I never cease to be amazed by how much this place hates the US Constitution

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Funny since you fail to understand the meaning of the Constitution.

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RelentlessAnalysis, would you still support this decision if the religion in question was Islam?

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Absolutely.

Regardless of whether it was the religion favored by the court, or the religion disfavored by the court.

Because the court, in that case, is the finder a fact as to what is in the best interest of the child.

What is NOT in the best interest of the child… Is for the two parents to be sniping at each other every alternating week by competing with one another for the child’s religious education.

Story came on the scene 25 years after ratification of the Constitution, in the height of the Second Great Awakening. No, I don’t give his opinions much credence as to what people were thinking 25 years earlier about the confluence of religion and government, when he was 10 years old.

I’m a Textualist. The document says what it says.

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If people knew this, you’d be better received

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If you had told someone 15 years ago this would happen, they never would've believed it. Smh

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If you had told someone 15 years ago this would happen, they never would've believed it.

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Those people would be extraordinarily uninformed.

Courts have been picking one parent or the other to direct the child’s religious education in failed mixed marriages for far longer than 15 years. More like 150 or more.

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The entire court should be disbarred.

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I mean… the liberals would have already murdered this cuck judge.

Sounds illegal

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Maine District Judge Jennifer Nofsinger 

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Found the problem.

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Germans?

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What's that supposed to mean?

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Oh lol, that if you hated groups with

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a 'charismatic' speaker, spoke 'authoritatively' in his messages, and that he asserted his messages were objective truth."

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Goodbye Catholicism,

AKA they could have been describing the Catholic church as well if that was their criteria.