{"id":1579,"date":"2005-05-27T09:19:33","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T16:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/27\/this-is-what-an-activist-judge-looks-like\/"},"modified":"2005-05-27T09:19:33","modified_gmt":"2005-05-27T16:19:33","slug":"this-is-what-an-activist-judge-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"This is What An Activist Judge Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, great, because I&#8217;ve come across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050526\/NEWS01\/505260481\">a truly bizarre<\/a> case of judicial activism.  It would seem that <a href=\"http:\/\/www6.indygov.org\/courts\/\">Cale J. Bradford<\/a>, chief judge of the Marion County Superior Courts has decided he needed to prohibit exposure to the Wicca faith to a nine year old boy, whose parents are divorcing.  After learning that Thomas Jones Jr. and his ex-wife, Tammie Bristol were Wiccans that sent their child to a Catholic school &#8211; according to the judge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a discrepancy between Ms. Jones and Mr. Jones&#8217; lifestyle and the belief system adhered to by the parochial school. . . . Ms. Jones and Mr. Jones display little insight into the confusion these divergent belief systems will have upon (the boy) as he ages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both parents protested the decision heavily, but the court has kept the provision regardless.  Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iclu.org\/\">Indiana Civil Liberties Union<\/a> is helping out with an appeal, that as the reporter of the article states is a &#8216;slam dunk&#8217; of a case.  Lets hope so &#8211; I&#8217;m personally stunned that it got this far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, great, because I&#8217;ve come across a truly bizarre case of judicial activism. It would seem that Cale J. Bradford, chief judge of the Marion County Superior Courts has decided he needed to prohibit exposure to the Wicca faith to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-structures-divorce-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}