Judge rules Tennessee parents can name baby ‘Messiah’

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[JoeProBono]

NEWPORT, Tenn.— A Tennessee judge said parents can name their 8-month-old baby “Messiah,” overturning the decision of another judge who thought the name was blasphemous.

At a paternity hearing last month, child support magistrate Lu Ann Ballew was asked to decide Messiah Deshawn Martin’s surname. Ballew ended up changing the baby’s first name as well, saying that “Messiah” was a title reserved for Jesus Christ.....

[JoeProBono]

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Lemonjello
Orangello
Shithead

Why not Messiah?

[shadeaud]

But you can name the kid mohamed and there is no problembo

[Old Sarge]

That name is already taken, by the doofus at 1600 Penn. Avenue, DC.

[USMCPOP]

“Deshawn” is the part that bothers me.

[discostu]

You can name your kid whatever you want. But don’t come crying to me when somebody nails him to some wood.

[shotgun]

Shithead as pronounced SH-theed

[Ditter]

Wasn't a kid named La-ah? Pronounced Ladasha, the - don't be silent.

[Batman11]

Should have named the kid Anfernee. You know, after Saint Anfernee.

[Secret Agent Man]

“messy” for short...

[Secret Agent Man]

surprised it wasn’t named “skittles”.

[Secret Agent Man]

her last name is “martin” and she didn’t name the future purple dranker “trayvon”?

[shotgun]

Reminds me of being in a grocery store in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The checker’s name was Jesus, so upon paying I said thank you “hey zeus”. my wife at the time said how do you it’s not Jesus.

I said because he doesn’t have any spike scars on his hands.

[bgill]

Parents have saddled their kids with horrible names since the beginning of time but since when has a judge the right to stick his nose into it?

Here’s hoping he’ll not turn out to be another son of Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

[Boogieman]

Good example of how screwed up the family court system is. The judge has no business changing the kid’s name, the state has no interest in that, and really, has no authority to do so. Yet, you give the little black robed divas as much power as we have, and they think nothing of butting in and making decisions by fiat on any aspect of our lives.

[MeshugeMikey]

let us not that the childs father.....is no where mentioned in the article....for some strange reason...

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I wish I could find and post that SNL skit with Chris Farley as a school bus driving calling the names of kids in a school playground to get on the bus. All black kids, and the names were hysterical. Gynelotrimin, Clit-erus, etc. It was the most politically incorrect thing I’ve ever seen.

[Ezekiel]

let us not that the childs father.....is no where mentioned in the article....for some strange reason...

Virgin birth.

[Still Thinking]

A Tennessee judge said parents can name their 8-month-old baby “Messiah,” overturning the decision of another judge who thought the name was blasphemous.

Has anyone told the Mexicans?

[Ditter]

I am a huge SNL fan and I have been since it's beginning. I think I remember that Chris Farley skit. I have a set of SNL CD’s I will look through them. Do you remember the Robert Deniro skit where he names all of the terrorist? I laughed till I almost made myself sick. Great comedy!