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This is exactly the type of thing I fear is the future if we don’t stop the fundies:

An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge’s unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to “non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals.”

The parents practice Wicca, a contemporary pagan religion that emphasizes a balance in nature and reverence for the earth.

Cale J. Bradford, chief judge of the Marion Superior Court, kept the unusual provision in the couple’s divorce decree last year over their fierce objections, court records show. The order does not define a mainstream religion…

[Via Warrenellis.com]

It’s funny how the term “activist judges” is bandied about by the fundies when courts step in to preserve choice and freedom, and yet we don’t hear a peep of this when someone’s basic human right to raise their child as they see fit is simply taken away.