Religious Freedom

CLICK ON THE IMAGE FOR A LARGER VERSION

After hours of time in court, including personal interaction with Venessa Mills, clear and lucid testimony, reasonable and thorough affidavits, and not one fundamentalist rant or quotation from the Bible, Judge Mangum somehow could still not figure out that Venessa was not "brainwashed." 

If Judge Mangum, who is a judge, is not able to work that out, one can only wonder what else he is not able to understand. Perhaps he needs a refresher on our Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion and nowhere mentions anything about inflicting mental evaluations on Christian mothers who are teaching their children from the Bible?

Contrary to what is right in front of him, and all the evidence that led him to confirm that she was a "good mother" and a "fit parent," Judge Mangum ordered that Venessa undergo a mental evaluation because she had merely been accused of being "brainwashed."

Our legal system represents a blatant double-standard when it encourages people to freely share their religious beliefs, and then turns around and "evaluates" them if that belief turns out to be from the Bible.