{"id":4067,"date":"2010-02-19T03:35:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/02\/father-may-face-jail-over-daughters-baptism.html"},"modified":"2010-02-19T03:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:35:39","slug":"father-may-face-jail-over-daughters-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/02\/father-may-face-jail-over-daughters-baptism.html","title":{"rendered":"Father may face jail over daughter’s baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Windy City comes this story<\/a> of an ill wind blowing between a divorced couple, over religion and the raising of their daughter: <\/p>\n

\nRebecca Reyes opened an e-mail from her estranged husband last November to learn he’d had their 3-year-old daughter baptized in the Catholic Church — despite his pledge to raise her in the Jewish faith, she said.<\/p>\n

When she complained, a Cook County judge took the unusual step of temporarily barring Reyes’ husband, Joseph, from exposing their child to any faith other than Judaism.<\/p>\n

\"wbbm1211jewishbaby.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Joseph Reyes allegedly defied the order by taking his daughter to Mass, with a television news crew in tow.<\/p>\n

His wife’s lawyers blasted his defiance and demanded that he be held in criminal contempt.<\/p>\n

As the couple’s private battles flare into the open, the case has raised questions about how far the courts can — or should — go in dictating which religion parents teach their children.<\/p>\n

Joseph Reyes, a law student, said he decided to take his daughter to a Catholic church despite the court order after she’d asked about her paternal grandparents. He told her they were at church, and she asked to go there, he said.<\/p>\n

His lawyer, Joel Brodsky, said every parent has a right to take their child to their place of worship “as long as it is not a harm to the child.”<\/p>\n

“I cannot see how taking a child to a baptism or church could ever be a harm to a child,” Brodsky said.<\/p>\n

Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Loredo-Rivera, who was brought into the case at the father’s request to replace Judge Edward Jordan, said Tuesday that she will set a date for trial on the contempt charge. If convicted, Joseph Reyes could face six months in jail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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