Leftist judge in Maine orders a mother NOT to let her daughter attend any church unless...

Leftist judges have been out of control for over two decades.  Latest example:

A year ago a state judge in the cesspool of Democrat-ruled Portland, Maine, ORDERED a mother to stop taking her 12-year-old daughter to church--any church.

Seriously.  Leftist judge Jennifer Nofsinger so ORDERED because the girl's father--who never married the mother and left her before her daughter was born--claimed the church was causing the girl "psychological harm."  The judge's ORDER gave the father (Matthew Bradeen) the sole power to decide which religious activities his 12-year-old daughter, Ava, would be allowed to participate in.

SO...is this a church that practices voodoo or satanism or child sacrifice or pedophilia?  Nope, it's a normal evangelical church.  Unless you're a liberal Democrat or a member of the ACLU, there's nothing scary at all about it.

Bradeen’s relationship with Ava’s mother, Emily Bickford, ended before Ava was born.  The mother has primary custody.  After the daughter told her father she was planning to be baptized, he went to court to stop it.

Apparently the father hired “a Marxist former sociology professor from California,” Janja Lalich--who claims to be an expert on cults and coercion--as an expert witness, to testify that the church was a cult.

The father claimed that after Ava began attending the church, she started having panic attacks and showing alarming behavior—like leaving notes around the house saying "the rapture is coming.” 

The Marxist former sociology prof said she believed the church was a “cultic organization" and posed a potential for psychological harm to the daughter.

The judge court RULED that teachings and depictions used in the church’s services and youth materials — including images of “fallen angels” and messages about “eternal suffering” — had caused psychological distress to the child.

No claim was made that Emily was an unfit parent--except for the fact that she was a Christian.  In her opinion leftist judge Jennifer Nofsinger mocked Ava and Emily’s faith by refusing to capitalize the word “God.”  The judge even rebuked the mother for allowing the pastor of the church to pray for Ava, and then ORDERED that the mother was barred from taking her daughter to ANY church unless the father approved--which he has steadfastly refused to do. 

Under what even leftist Newsweek called an “unusually sweeping custody order” the judge ORDERED that the daughter not associate with any of her church friends or any member of Calvary Chapel Church.  Further, if the daughter were to meet a new friend outside of Calvary and that person began attending Calvary, the judge ORDERED the daughter not to associate with that friend.

The order goes on: The daughter is barred from attending ANY Christmas, Easter, or any other Christian event or celebration at ANY church, including any wedding, funeral, or even hospital visits with anyone associated with Calvary Chapel.

The judge ordered her not to have any contact or participation with ANY religious organization, and is forbidden to read the Bible or be exposed to any “religious philosophy.” 

Last week Maine's supreme court heard the mother's appeal of the lower-court judges obscene ruling.  The father's attorney brazenly claimed to the judges of the supreme court Thursday that the  lower-court judge had “narrowly tailored" her order barring the girl from all religious contacts unless the absent father agreed.

The details of this case seem so outrageous as to be hard to believe, but the leftists who run Newsweek posted most of it, for what that's worth.  I've tried to find the judge Jennifer Nofsinger's order but no luck so far.