Posted on 08/27/2009 5:51:11 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
A Christian homeschool girl in New Hampshire has been ordered into government-run public school for having "sincerely held" religious beliefs.
An attorney working with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has filed motions with a New Hampshire court, asking it to reconsider its order to send the 10-year-old homeschooled girl into public school.
According to ADF allied attorney John Anthony Simmons, the court acknowledges that the girl in question is doing well socially and academically, but he adds that the court went too far when they determined that the girl's Christian faith was a "bit too sincerely held and must be sifted, tested by, and mixed among other worldviews."
Simmons contends that parents have a "fundamental right to make educational choices for their children." However, the girl's parents divorced in 1999, and she is now living with her mother who has been homeschooling the child since first grade. As part of the schooling, the young girl has been attending supplemental public school classes.
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
God have mercy on the Body of Christ for our inaction, and selfish lifestyles, too busy to be concern about our religious freedoms.
They got divorced just before or after this child was born. So sad.
“determined that the girl’s Christian faith was a “bit too sincerely held and must be sifted, tested by, and mixed among other worldviews.”
HOLY smokes! We are no longer the United States of America.
We are now the Soviet States of North America.
This is outrageous.
Why don’t these stories ever NAME THE DAMN JUDGES? “Courts” don’t make rulings, judges do; juries do. These people should be identified, by name and location, so the people in the communities where they live know what they are up to.
The judge overstepped ~ unfortunately he’s just another New England hillbilly who hasn’t got a clue.
what stupid a$$ judge thinks he has the right to interfere with families
The “Live free or die” state, is dead?
The gulags are coming, people.
So much for “Live Free Or Die”. Sounds discriminatory based on religion. I’d sue them silly.
who was the judge?
Isn’t time for a revolution yet? They take our kids, they take our property for shopping malls,they take tax payers money to bailout their friends, they take money from those who are productive and give it to the worthless. It isn’t time to tell them enough is enough? The beast is growing and it will not be satisfied.
I guess the court never read that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the FREE EXERCISE THEREOF, ...”
What bastards!
Solution: leave New Hampshire.
My objection was to the fact that the story doesn’t say.
Some judges need to report to the principals office.
Did a little Googling. Apparently daddy wants her in public school (!!!!!), and while mommy has primary custody, they have a shared parenting agreement.
Further on in the story, it explains that the parents, as part of the divorce agreement, agreed to joint decision making for parental decisions. Dad doesn't want his daughter homeschooled by her mother, and the mother wants to continue teaching at home, though it is also noted that she already attends some public education classes already.
So, well, gotta put the onus on the parents here - they can't come to an agreement, even though they promised to make such decisions jointly. It would not surprise me if the father's filing includes more than religious issues - after all, if they held such strong religious beliefs, they would have taken their vows far more seriously and remained married.
Lucinda V. Sadler
Judge, Laconia Family Court
Names at https://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=5050 :
“Marital Master Michael Garner reasoned that the girl’s “vigorous defense of her religious beliefs to [her] counselor suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view” and then recommended that the girl be ordered to enroll in a government school instead of being home-schooled. Judge Lucinda V. Sadler approved the recommendation and issued the order on July 14.”
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