This may be a touchy subject!
"Baby can't be named 'Messiah,' judge rules"
A Tennessee judge has ordered a baby boy’s name to be changed from “Messiah” after deciding it is a title that has “only been earned by one person and that one person is Jesus Christ.”
NBC station WBIR reported that the parents of the 7-month-old went to a child support hearing in Cocke County Chancery Court because they could not agree on his surname.
However, Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew decided Thursday that the baby, Messiah DeShawn Martin, should be renamed “Martin DeShawn McCullough.”
“The word Messiah is a title and it's a title that has only been earned by one person and that one person is Jesus Christ,” Ballew said, according to WBIR-TV.
She said she made the decision in the best interests of the child.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08 ... rules?lite
JMO, I agree.
What are your thoughts?
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Re: What are your thoughts?
While I would not pick a name like that, I do object to the government interference. JMHO...
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Re: What are your thoughts?
Freedom of speech...nothing more to say...
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Re: What are your thoughts?
Terrible name, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to reproduce, and when you reproduce you get to name the offspring. She did and that's that. It's not the governments job to pick and choose what names are acceptable.
Now if they would like to start a sterilization process for idiots then I would be all for that one......
Now if they would like to start a sterilization process for idiots then I would be all for that one......
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And just who would determine who the "idiots" are? Slippery slope, IMHO!Lock5 wrote:
Now if they would like to start a sterilization process for idiots then I would be all for that one......
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re3too wrote:And just who would determine who the "idiots" are? Slippery slope, IMHO!Lock5 wrote:
Now if they would like to start a sterilization process for idiots then I would be all for that one......
I can do it in the afternoons after work for a few years, then someone else will have to take over......
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Re: What are your thoughts?
None of the judge's business.case should be reversed
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Re: What are your thoughts?
Agree with everyone else, what to name your child is not the courts business to be deciding. No way the ruling would ever stand up to appeals, it'll just cost the parents a war pension to pursue it further. They ought to make the dumbass judge pay all the cost of the appeals but that will never happen either. 