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Author Topic:   Judge orders baby name change based on her Christian beliefs
NoNukes
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Message 9 of 29 (704604)
08-12-2013 1:21 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by jar
08-12-2013 8:37 AM


Re: Doubt it would stand up.
Yup, even Judges can be ******. Fortunately in the US nonsense like that won't stand up.
"Won't stand up" in the US means spending your own time and money to appeal the decision to at least one reviewing court. If this case was in a jurisdiction I can practice in, I'd offer to take the case for free and attempt to get my fees back from the state as part of the judgement.
As some of our recent discussions in these forum suggest, large sections of the country take issue with the idea that Jesus Christ is the Messiah anyway.
Total BS. How many kids are named "Jesus" without causing an uproar?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 22 of 29 (704653)
08-13-2013 11:16 AM
Reply to: Message 11 by Rahvin
08-12-2013 1:30 PM


Re: Doubt it would stand up.
If this judge had said "that's ridiculous, this child will be mocked in school and suffer psychological trauma, for the best interest of the child the name must be changed," then this would be a non-issue. The ruling would almost certainly be upheld.
Upon reading the article, I find hat the judge did say exactly that when interviewed.
But apparently the name Messiah isn't even all that rare.
What's it like being called Messiah? - BBC News
quote:
There were 762 American baby boys named Messiah last year, and that figure is growing. The Social Security Administration ranks it the fourth fastest-growing name for baby boys - it leapt from 633rd in 2011 to 387th in 2012. And it's not just a boy's name or a first name.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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