Thanks to Brody for sending this in. What do you all think? I can imagine if it was a mother trying to stop her ex taking their child to church because she was atheist, there would be an outcry, but here it is two religions at war in their family. Read below:
Last week, ABC News spoke exclusively with Joseph Reyes, the husband in a bitter divorce battle who faces up to six months in jail for marching his toddler into a Catholic Church, cameras in tow, in defiance of a temporary court order that forbade him from exposing his daughter to "any other religion other than the Jewish religion."
Joseph said that neither his Jewish wife nor a judge should dictate how he worships with his child and that he disobeyed the order "out of civic duty and out of a sense of justice."
Days after the media firestorm that followed Joseph's public appeal, Rebecca Reyes breaks her silence to explain why she is asking a Chicago family law judge to throw her husband in jail for taking daughter Ela to Sunday mass.
"This is about parenting, this is not about religion," Rebecca told Cuomo.
Rebecca said that Joseph is entitled to be Catholic and Ela can choose Catholicism when she is older, but they "had pledged in the marriage contract to raise Jewish children, and so we had a Jewish home." Joseph had converted to Judaism, complete with a ritualized circumcision.
"The constant undermining of who [Ela] is, who she was born as, and who we agreed she would be in our home, is really harmful," Rebecca told Cuomo. "There will be confusion; there will be an abrogation of her identity."
2 comments:
Tempest in a teapot, BIGTIME. I can only imagine what all this ridiculous bickering (in COURT? Puh-lease!) is doing to the child, who probably sits and doodles with crayons on the service program anyway, whether it's in a Catholic church or a synagogue. Did I miss something, or didn't the article mention she's a toddler?
I seriously doubt that the defiant Mr. Reyes will face any jail time. My opinion? The mother needs to "do some time" herself, maybe on a shrink's sofa, to deal with her irrational anger issues.
Poor confused toddler. "Abrogation of her identity," my ass. I mean, come on, people!
Indeed, Brenda. What judge is going to risk a "jailed for teaching his son about Jesus" headline?
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