Get Religion wrote a nice piece about an Indiana judge who entered an order that prohibits a Wiccan couple from exposing their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals." Get Religion responds:
This is an important parents' rights case and is, in a strange way, very similar to the cases in which Muslims, Orthodox Jews and traditional Christians wrestle with public-school officials over the moral education of their children.
Religious liberty is only as strong as the rights of miniorities. Take away the rights of parents to advocate their own faith to their children and the next thing you know you'll have evangelical kids forced to sit in school classes that openly attack the faith taught in their homes. Wait, that's happening already, isn't it?
But the point remains the same. Parents have a right to pray with their kids and even preach to them. If Christians – even very conservative ones – want that right they should defend that right for others.
Link.
We agree. Ridiculing and scoffing at Wiccans is one thing (this blog's thing, actually), but they ought not be coerced by the law.
