{"id":61736,"date":"2025-11-18T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61736"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:28:56","slug":"the-right-to-take-your-child-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61736","title":{"rendered":"The Right To Take Your Child To Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabi.tv\/2025\/11\/14\/me-justices-consider-whether-custody-order-can-block-mother-taking-daughter-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WABI Channel 5<\/a> in Maine posted an article about a divorce custody case where the court is deciding whether or not the mother has the right to take her daughter to church.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Maine Supreme Court justices heard arguments in a parental-rights case on Thursday involving a mother who says she has been unconstitutionally barred from taking her 12-year-old daughter to church.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Emily Bickford is challenging a December 2024 custody order that prohibits her from bringing her daughter to Calvary Chapel in Westbrook.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A district court judge sided with the child\u2019s father, Matthew Bradeen, ruling that some of the church\u2019s teachings could be psychologically harmful to the girl.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The order allows Bradeen to solely decide on his daughter\u2019s involvement with Calvary Chapel Church.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>When it comes to any other religious organization, the order states that the parents share rights and must discuss.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Bickford\u2019s attorneys, led by Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, argued that the lower court\u2019s decision violates her First Amendment rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThis is a nuclear option, where you give total authority to one parent to make decisions regarding religion over the other parent, who\u2019s a fit parent,\u201d Staver told our media partner WMTW outside the courthouse in Portland, where justices heard roughly 30 minutes of oral arguments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Bickford said after the hearing that the order has prevented her daughter from attending a place that is meaningful to her.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is amazing. I looked up the Calvary Chapel website. Their beliefs are basic Christianity. Even if their beliefs were strange, I think a mother is entitled to take her daughter to the church of her choice. This is a definite affront to the First Amendment rights of the mother and daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, WABI Channel 5 in Maine posted an article about a divorce custody case where the court is deciding whether or not the mother has the right to take her daughter to church. The article reports: Maine Supreme Court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61736\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18755,146,18754],"class_list":["post-61736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-calvary-chapel","tag-maine","tag-wabi-channel-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61737,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61736\/revisions\/61737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}