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Is this an egregious application of State power on religion?
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August 12th, 2013
Apparently last week there was a custody court case in Tennessee. At issue was whether the father or mother would be raising the child. So far, so good. Very routine.
Then the Judge in that area asked the baby’s name asked the name of the child, and was told it was “Messiah”. So the judge, by herself, without any prompting from any lawyer, decided that *“The word Messiah is a title and it’s a title that has only been earned by one person and that one person is Jesus Christ,”. * And so she forced the parents to rename the child to be Martin.
To me, this seems like it is improper (the judge ruled on something that is not at issue before the court), and an egregious violation of church and state. What business is it of the court what anyone’s religious beliefs are? And under what law does the judge have the ability to rule that Jesus is the only messiah?
Obviously this is going to be appealed, and the judge is going to lose. But what sort of hubris does the judge have to use the power of the state to enforce her religious philosophy?
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