“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” – Genesis 1:27 (NIV)
Indiana parents Jeremy and Mary Cox found themselves amid an intense legal battle as Child Services decided to take their son away from their custody after he began identifying as a girl The couple, a devout Catholic, asked the Supreme Court to interfere in their case as they believe Indiana violated their rights as parents, as well as, their religious liberty as the state imposed on them to recognize their son’s “preferred pronouns,” as he suffers eating disorder because he was prevented from going home.
Lori Windham, vice president and senior counsel for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, urged the Supreme Court to decide their case.
“If this can happen in Indiana, it can happen anywhere. Tearing a child away from loving parents because of their religious beliefs, which are shared by millions of Americans, is an outrage to the law, parental rights, and basic human decency,” Windham said.
In 2019, their son confessed that he identifies with the female sex. However, both of them believed that God created humans with an immutable sex. So, while trying to comprehend the situation, they also tried to explain their religious belief to their son, as they refused to refer to him by his “preferred pronouns.” The parents also think that their son suffers from underlying mental health issues, including an eating disorder.
According to the couple’s lawyer, “they provided therapeutic care for the child’s gender dysphoria and scheduled appointments with a specialist to help him with the eating disorder.”
The state courts allowed the Indiana government to deprive the Coxes of their parental rights, even though the state determined there was no basis for the allegations of abuse against the couple. Maintaining that disagreement over gender issues caused mental health concerns for their son.
“Keeping a child away from loving parents because of their religious beliefs—even when the state admits there was no abuse or neglect—is wrong and it’s against the law,” says Windham.
“The Court should take this case and make clear that other states can’t take children away because of ideological disagreements.”
The parents did not believe in calling him different pronouns other than what is consistent with his biology. Despite this, the Coxes loved him no less.
“This is what every parent is afraid of,” Mary and Jeremy Cox said in a press release.
“We love our son and wanted to care for him, but the state of Indiana robbed us of that opportunity by taking him from our home and banning us from speaking to him about gender.”
“We are hopeful that the Justices will take our case and protect other parents from having to endure the nightmare we did,” they added.
I bet they won’t. This Court will be cowed. It already is. It will abandon its responsibility to protect against government overreach & state political tyranny & wash its hands in Pilare’s cistern of whitewash. Until the American people realize that their government, their courts and their police are now their enemies the spread of tyranny will continue unabated. Only mass civil disobedience & tax protests can slow it down.
The way things are currently going. The United States will cease to exist in less than a year when “The Far Left-Wing Lunatics” will completely control the asylum. Our military parades will see service men and women “Goosestepping” and giving the Nazi salute to the Democrat in power. Who can we thank for all this insanity? Every damn Democrat in the U.S..
You are right!! Donald Trump must win or our country will not survive! Pray for him and pray for our country! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏