The Governor named Cale Bradford to the Indiana Court of Appeals. (See the Indiana Law Blog for more details.) Judge Bradford has been a judge of the Marion County Superior Court. I don’t get down to Marion County very often, so I primarily know Judge Bradford from his anti-Wicca jurisprudence (subsequently struck down by the Court of Appeals). Long-time readers may recall that Judge Bradford, in a divorce decree involving two Wiccan parents with children, ordered that these parents take steps to shelter their child from involvement in and observation of “these non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals.” Neither parent requested such a provision in the decree.
That’s just one case, and may well not be representative of Judge Bradford’s jurisprudence. Still, that case is at least a red flag with respect to separating church from state.
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