Is that really the domain of a court, to determine if someone has a "rigidity on questions of faith.."?
Could they not use that same ruling to require the state control of all children of sincerely religious parents?
What if the church she and her mother attends is brainwashing her into believing her father is evil because he won't become a member?
My first reaction was "lets get the pitchforks" no court should tell someone how much faith and belief they should have, but I don't think this is going on here. It is an action between the father and mother and looks like the child is being manipulated into a bad relationship with the father.
I would question the integrity of the Pastor.
I have already formed the opinion that the mother is a piece of dirt. She has custody most of the time and must have been promoting the use of faith in Jesus Christ as a tool to separate father and daughter.
The parties worked out a custody agreement whereby all major decisions of the child were to be by joint agreement. This is what happens when one party decides they know best without going to court to modify the previous agreement. This happens all of the time and the court takes the path of least resistance in resolving the matter.
The mother can home school (debrief) the child after she gets home from the government school. I found with my boys that worked best for us as we had immediate examples to discuss our world view rather than abstract examples.
Bingo, I think that's the idea. After all, Hitler sent the Jews (and the Christians who hid them) to the death camps and it was all perfectly legal.