[pray4liberty]

This guy has proven by his behavior and the way he carries on about this issue, that he's quite the nasty piece of work. He's certainly not helping the cause of 'father's rights' if that is, indeed, his real beef. I wonder if his daughter loves him, or if it was she who begged Mom to get as far away from him as possible.

I grew up in an abusive household, and believe me there are times that it's the kids who beg Mom (or Dad) to get as far away as possible from the abusive parent.

Time will tell.

[flyervet]

This guy has proven by his behavior and the way he carries on about this issue, that he's quite the nasty piece of work.

You're betraying your bias here. Lots of parents feel very passionately about certain causes. For instance, the Ohio parents in the school vouchers case took their cause all the way to the USSC. Why aren't they a "nasty piece of work"? Why isn't Darrell Scott, who lost one child at Columbine and has been on a crusade ever since, and even brought his surviving children in on this crusade, a "nasty piece of work"?

He's certainly not helping the cause of 'father's rights' if that is, indeed, his real beef.

He's a father who is doing the right thing by his child and campaigning to have oppressive anti-fatherhood laws changed. That's more than a lot of fathers have done to help the cause of father's rights.

I wonder if his daughter loves him, or if it was she who begged Mom to get as far away from him as possible.

It's equally fair to speculate as to whether his daughter loves her mother, who, after all, tried to rob her daughter of her father. But to this end, we're in the realm of speculation. Certainly we know that Michael Newdow has bent over backwards to support and be near his daughter. We also know that Michael Newdow has unsupervised visitation with his daughter, which is not an indicator of an abusive parent. You may not like Michael Newdow the man, but your dislike of him does not mean he is a bad father.