I have mixed feelings about this because I know the kids will suffer because of those names.
I agree. The kids may or may not adopt their parents' beliefs and will have to legally change their names when they're of age if they choose to do so. These parents used their children as a billboard for their political beliefs, an utterly cruel and selfish act. I don't see why the state had to take them, but I still have little sympathy for the parents.
Okay, I understand and see that. They really projected their beliefs and used the kids without considering the issues the kids would have, granted.
...but who do you set up as the name police? What names do you consider offensive?
Clearly expletives would be unacceptable, but as abhorrent as Nazism and racism are, it is still legal in the US to be a Nazi or a racist and advocate those sick worldviews.
This is not Germany where the swastika and positive references to Nazism is banned. This is the US, where even the most despicable and evil concepts are protected precisely because we trust people and don’t trust censors to decide what is acceptable and what is not acceptable.
I agree giving the kids these names is horrible, but believing in Nazism is not yet a crime. This is s very dangerous precedent.
Are they going to punish parents for naming kids Jesus (common Spanish name), Christian, or Faith? Who are the name police and what criteria do they use to determine what is ok and was is not?
This is like death panels for child naming...way too much power to be given to a bureaucrat!
Yet... Here we have father with daughter MOON UNIT.
