Let me first explain the legal context from which I am coming. In Irish law, welfare of the child in cases like this easily outranks religious freedom. The state would have moved in before the newspapers even heard of it.
First of all, under what situations in American law would social workers/"the state" be allowed to move in?
Secondly and I will be blunt, how stupid is the religious faith allowed to get before the state can intervene?
Now although these people genuinely believed what they were saying and as such it is a genuinely held world view, I think we can all agree that it is a ridiculous one.
Silent H is concerned that the state intervening in these type of situations would be the crowbar* that could later be used to pry away our freedom. Now since this does occur in Ireland and causes nobody concerns for their freedom, I was wondering what is different in American law that could make this a genuine concern.
*Warning terrible metaphor
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