WTF? Religious discrimination in the courts

[Prudence]

Here's my random mental wandering for the day:

What if the parent practiced some truly old school Catholicism and insisted that despite what the kid's school was teaching, the earth was actually the center of the universe and did not revolved around the sun. Surely that would breed the same sort of confusion the judge was purportedly trying to avoid? Would it have engendered the same result?

Perhaps Indiana needs a handbook of approved beliefs and practices to hand out to all current and prospective parents?

(Side note: Sometimes I really wish I was in practice already and on a particular case. Oh the fun I could have! Noting the pagan origins of so-called "mainstream" practices. Comparing numbers of Wiccans to numbers of other faiths and denominations and asking for equal treatment. (No Diwali for you, mister! And that goes double for Visakha Bucha!) And that doesn't even touch the constitutional issues! I suspect the reason this didn't get more press is because it's so obviously wrong. There was a follow-up article 2 days later indicating that most thought it would be quickly overturned upon appeal. But wouldn't it be entertaining for a brief moment to demonstrate what that ruling really meant? To try to ellicit a definition of "mainstream"?)