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Does Islam encourage tolerance?

Not more or less than Christianity.  And most American Muslims are working hard to do away with the stereotype that all Muslims want to live like it's Saudi Arabia.

It sounds more like the other chick was pissed off and looking for a reason to sue for custody.

And you get this from what, exactly?

I did read the goddamnmutherfukkin article.

Another troubling aspect of this case, he said, is the award of visitation and joint parenting responsibilities to a third-party who has no legal relationship to the daughter or the mother

The way I read that bit it sounds like the "third party" is actually McLeod, the lesbian ex, who they (Clark & attorneys) say has no "legal relationship to the daughter or the mother".

So if this case is an assault on Christianity and not merely a custody dispute, where are all the court-ordered intrusions into the lives of still-happily married right-wing Christians who're rearing their kids with Phelpsian homophobia? I seem to have missed those reports...

It's not about an assault on Christianity, but the government ordering someone how to raise their children.

Ok, but wait a moment... earlier you wrote this:

What he is implying(which most choose to ignore, as usual) that if the family were Islamic, the US court wouldn't interfere with their "culture" as readily as the Anglo-Christian culture.
Islamic culture is hateful towards gays too.

So, you say it's not an assault on Christianity, but Islamic families are exempt? Does this just mean that (in your view) the government is ordering people to rear their children in Islamic ways specifically, not non-Christians in general? Or do you mean Islamic family ways just happen to already align with whatever way the government is trying to force people to rear their kids?

Just the first small step. Then one day it could become mandantory.
Should it be a crime to teach ignorance?

The first small step of what, pray tell?

I was saying that the judge would have ruled differently for fear of repercussions from the PC community for interfereing with "another culture".


And a small step to just more government control over how we raise our children/think/act.

It's not about an assault on Christianity, but the government ordering someone how to raise their children.
Just the first small step. Then one day it could become mandantory.
Should it be a crime to teach ignorance?

Actually, this is a case of one parent of the child getting a court order on how the other raises the child.  I don't fully know the case law, but it seems reasonable that the parent without custody would still have a right to help set general guidelines on how the child is raised.  This is a dispute between two parents, with one apparently trying to turn the child against the other.  I can see a legal basis for that.

Omega and Phy: of course, if the family in question were Muslim, you'd be just as outraged, correct?

Haven't you been reading the thread? It would never have happened if the family were Muslim. Omega and Marsy know that for sure!

That was a guess, a conjecture, or something I pulled from my bunghole, if you will.

That's what I figured. But you used the words "Sounds like" as though it "sounded like" when it didn't. Why are you getting so nasty over it? All I did was ask where you got that impression/guess/congecture/bunghole stuffing. Since it came off as an unsupported attack on McLeod and was not even mentioned in the article, I was both asking if you had other sources and calling you on your baseless attack (should you in fact NOT have a basis for it).

Sorry if asking you to support a dumbass, baseless accusation on a person who's barely even discussed in the article is so annoying. I just didn't see where the nasty remark was coming from.

(PS: Feel free to do the same should I do it too.)

Hmmm, never thought of it that way yet. I'd still be miffed over a court ruling on how they raise their kids. I don't care if they learn morals/discipline from any book.

I'm equally outraged that some angry poarent is using the courts as a revenge tool. I don't care what race/religion you are when you blow my tax dollars.

And here YOU go in that direction too! Geez louise!

Where do you people get this from!!?? How the hell do you come to the conclusion/assumption/bunghole stuffing that anyone here is "using the courts as a revenge tool"? There's NOTHING in the article that insinuates this! The article is primarily about the court's instructions that there be no homophobic teachings which Clark feels transgresses her rights to teach her view of religion. That's pretty much all they talk about. I'm actually surprised that the article is rather even about the "lesbian" partner, considering the Christian source.

Can you tell me what exactly makes this a "revenge tool" if a person uses legitimate judicial processes to try to make sure their kid isn't being brainwashed into hating them? What other methods do you propose they use? Duels at dawn? Email?