# Time: Can Atheists Be Parents?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [August 26, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675 "2009-08-26T14:39:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/21 "2009-08-27T00:12:24Z")
I’m sure the judge is just a very old fashioned catholic and is stubborn in his ways… Like not being accepting of anything different, and only partaking in acceptable life styles such as drinking a lot of whiskey, and beating his wife. but at least he believes in catholicism’s lord!
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### Author:  [@Penfold](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Penfold)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/22 "2009-08-27T01:35:03Z")
I need to search out happier news to counteract the stupidity involved in this case.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/23 "2009-08-27T04:16:51Z")
Guys, relax… This will never survive the state court challenge, much less make it to the federal level. It’s one low level asshole judge who will probably find himself unemployed soon, much like that judge who sued for millions over a pair of pants. Low level judges are just publicly elected positions so sometimes you get some real bad judges.
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### Author:  [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/24 "2009-08-27T05:38:39Z")
jesus fucking christ.
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### Author:  [@cteclipse](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cteclipse)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/25 "2009-08-27T06:36:13Z")
did any of you look at the date this was published…
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/26 "2009-08-27T06:41:05Z")
> [@cteclipse](#):
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> did any of you look at the date this was published…
:lol: No wonder I couldn’t find any information about that judge.
:picard:
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### Author:  [@Vrooom](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vrooom)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/27 "2009-08-27T06:41:24Z")
> [@cteclipse](#):
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> did any of you look at the date this was published…
lol
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/28 "2009-08-27T06:56:30Z")
lol… well it was fun while it lasted… 😃
if anything the lesson here is how recently in history we had things like this going on.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/29 "2009-08-27T06:58:19Z")
Yep, ya got me.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/30 "2009-08-27T06:59:34Z")
IFB?
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/31 "2009-08-27T07:20:17Z")
Damn. I kind of wish there was a follow up to see how those “evil” atheist children turned out.
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### Author:  [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/32 "2009-08-27T07:23:29Z")
My first tip off was that the baby’s name was Eleanor. I think that name died off with FDR’s wife.
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### Author:  [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/33 "2009-08-27T08:06:15Z")
Well almost 40 years later, how did the case turn out?
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### Author:  [@Bucker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bucker)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/34 "2009-08-27T08:22:00Z")
Are you fucking serious?
Fuck this. I quit.
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### Author:  [@SpenceSpeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SpenceSpeed)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/35 "2009-08-27T12:34:53Z")
For those curious about the results, it was a rout. Multiple religious groups testified in favor of reversal, and even the amicus curiae supported reversal in this particular case to avoid trauma for the child (while at the same time supporting upholding the prior ruling in future cases). But it got overturned, so we can relax.
Full article below:
[http://www.americanadoptions.com/adoption/article\_view?article\_id=2435&state=NJ&court\_case=1](http://www.americanadoptions.com/adoption/article_view?article_id=2435&state=NJ&court_case=1)
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### Author:  [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/36 "2009-08-27T12:41:58Z")
lol. normally i check the date FIRST of any article posted on here. shame on me
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/37 "2009-08-27T13:10:48Z")
> [@SpenceSpeed](#):
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> For those curious about the results, it was a rout. Multiple religious groups testified in favor of reversal, and even the amicus curiae supported reversal in this particular case to avoid trauma for the child (while at the same time supporting upholding the prior ruling in future cases). But it got overturned, so we can relax.
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> Full article below:
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> [http://www.americanadoptions.com/adoption/article\_view?article\_id=2435&state=NJ&court\_case=1](http://www.americanadoptions.com/adoption/article_view?article_id=2435&state=NJ&court_case=1)
Nice find.
And good to see that the system worked. Weintraub’s opinion was especially scathing. You have to wonder what happened to the judge from the original case.
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### Author:  [@RLB](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RLB)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/38 "2009-08-28T07:59:37Z")
Yet another reason why Jersey sucks.
But seriously, this is one fucked up situation. Fuck that judge. Who the hell is he to decide what one should believe or not believe.
edit: glad it turned out ok.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2009, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/39 "2009-08-28T08:16:59Z")
I can see some sense to it. Look downtown on Thursdays around the square and find people who make their kids stand outside the concerts holding signs about God and how everyone is going to hell. There is also people holding up signs about there is no god so it can go either way. I guess its a government attempt to protect a child getting some bad heat.
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### Author:  [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2009, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-can-atheists-be-parents/72675/40 "2009-08-28T08:37:32Z")
> [@Paulo](#):
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> Damn. I kind of wish there was a follow up to see how those “evil” atheist children turned out.
> [@JasonCzerak"](#):
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> I didn’t read every post, most… so if someone mentioned this before…
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> Please, take a look at the date on the article.
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> Monday, Dec. 07, 1970
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> And here’s the ruling that overturned Judge numbnutz.
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> [http://www.americanadoptions.com/adoption/article\_view/article\_id/2435?pg=1](http://www.americanadoptions.com/adoption/article_view/article_id/2435?pg=1)
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> (thanks pocket, if you are on this forum)
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> As to why the internets ([time.com](http://time.com) in this case) are re-publishing 40 year old news and kinda hiding it as “new” with a date that wasn’t easily seen in the article due to it’s font and color… the world may never know.
posted on another forum
EDIT: I don’t read the whole thread ☹
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