I guess this will be a test
All those atheists who assert that raising a child as a Christian is tantamount to child abuse should be salivating over this court case:
A ruling from the Virginia Supreme Court, if it goes the wrong way, could yank a 6-year-old girl from the Christian home her mother has created and set her up to be “paraded as a political trophy of the homosexual community in Vermont,” according to a lawyer who argued the case before the court today.
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Among the precedents developing in the case is whether one state can force another to recognize its “same-sex” arrangements or whether states’ sovereignty will prevail. Also at issue is the acceptance as valid Christian values parents use to raise children.
“That’s true. Janet Jenkins, in court documents in Vermont, argued because [Lisa Miller] prays for her daughter and her well-being, and even prays for Janet, that in fact that is not in the best interests of Isabella. She [Jenkins] says because Lisa prays for her daughter, and tells her she’s praying to do God’s will, Janet has taken the position that … Christianity is harmful to children,” Staver told WND.
I guess we’ll get to see where American courts really stand on the issue of freedom of religion, won’t we?
And pace what I asked Joel earlier, here we have yet another example of a non-Christian (the article doesn’t say, but I for one am relatively certain that Janet Jenkins is secular) attempting to deny a Christian a fundamental human right — the right to worship. Whither the Constitution?
Update: Welcome, Steynians! Binks is absolutely right; people who share Richard Dawkins‘ thinking are probably salivating over this case.
Steynianism 116 « Free Mark Steyn! (April 19, 2008, 1:15 pm).
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