http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Newdow
There is no way Newdow as doing this in the best interest of his daughter; it was all about him and possibly about making his ex-wife miserable.
I completely agree about the unequally yoked. That is why I wish more people home schooled their children. Five years, or less when you consider day care, preschool, headstart, etc. is not enough time to train up a child in the way that they should go. We are making grave mistakes with our children when we turn them over to others to raise and, as someone else posted on one of these threads, hope to undo the damage done to them in those environments when they get home at night.
We probably agree on much more than we disagree about.
The children of divorce, or worse no marriage at all, is complicated in large measure because of our declining Christian values. We have problems with fathers not providing for their children, sometimes because mothers don't let them see them. We have problems with mothers moving away with the children. We have problems with the children being used as pawns for the parents to war with one another. The one constant is the child suffers.
One thing I'm certain of is children are a lot better off with their father in their life than not.