Posted on 12/13/2009 11:09:42 AM PST by GonzoII
A father has been hit with an unusual restraining order: Keep his daughter away from any religion that is not Jewish. After the girl's parents split up, the father went to a Catholic church and had the girl baptized, CBS station WBBM-TV reports.
Joseph Reyes, 35, had his daughter baptized and sent his ex-wife a picture of the ceremony.
Rebecca Reyes says she only learned of her daughter's Baptism when Joseph sent her the picture, and that he sent it out of malice. Joseph Reyes denies this.
"I sent it because Rebecca asked me for pictures," he said.
Rebecca Reyes says dhe wants her daughter raised Jewish, and that her husband pledged to do so, even going so far as to convert to Judaism himself.
"That's not accurate," he responded. "I'm not going to call her a liar, but … at the very least she's mistaken regarding that conversation."
But Rebecca Reyes says it's her estranged husband who made the mistake when he had their daughter baptized. In her petition, she argues that if he's allowed to raise the child in any faith other than Judaism, he will cause their daughter irreparable harm.
"I wouldn't harm my daughter simply to somehow spite my soon (soon)to-be ex-wife," Joseph Reyes said. "That's silly and ridiculous."
Reyes' divorce attorney, Joel Brodsky, said when he first saw the petition for a temporary restraining order against his client, he couldn't believe what he was reading.
"I almost fell off my chair," he said. "I thought maybe we were in Afghanistan and this was the Taliban. This is America. We have a First Amendment right of freedom of religion."
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Ping.
TO LATE NOW! HAHAHA!!! SHE CATHOLIC NOW!!!!! Thank God it wasn’t a boy.
Bump
Wonder what the judge’s religion is. Hmmm.
What a horrible story, but this kind of thing is common in mixed marriages gone wrong.
“I sent it because Rebecca asked me for pictures,” he said.
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What a jerk...
She probably had asked him before the baptism...
and meant other times...
That’s just abusive behavior from him...
Typical...
Misuse something she had said to excuse his actions..
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I cannot imagine why this judge even has a job. If Congress cannot make a law, what basis does the judge have in making this decision?
Doesn’t sound like a very good Christian either.
This daughter is on her way to having no faith with the divorced parents looking like they are using religion to go after each other.
Mixed marriages need not go wrong for this kind of thing to occur. Often time religion may not seem important to the individual parents, but it becomes important as it pertains to the children.
I think the rule of thumb is that the children take the fathers religion.. At least that it how it should be.
I want to know why *he* is the parent who has custody.
I can’t tell from the article who’s got primary (or sole) custody, but if the father’s telling the truth about the mother asking for pictures, I read that as meaning that he does, because why else would she need pictures? Each parent gets to take the child to their own church when the child is in their physical custody. I can’t believe the judge is foolish enough to blatantly favor one religion over another. Wouldn’t that be grounds for impeachment?
Good grief.
Accordign to Jewish law it is the mother’s religion that determines the kids faith.
Especially if the husband is now a sincere Roman Catholic (but by rights under the American constitution even without that), this decision is a sitting duck for overturn upon appeal. How is the state to pick the “right” faith for the daughter too young to even understand?
That's nice, but that violates Jewish religious law which holds that religion is inherited through the mother. In this case, that's especially significant because we're talking about a Jewish mother and a Christian father.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
You wrote:
“What a jerk...She probably had asked him before the baptism...and meant other times...”
Probably? Is that good enough basis to say this:
“That’s just abusive behavior from him...”
Abusive? How is that abusive?
“Typical...”
How the heck do you know this is typical of ANYTHING or ANYONE? What are you comparing it to?
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