Final word: The idiot should be removed from the bench.

actually if you read the story more closely you'd see that the couple adopted 31 years ago and have now adopted another child, or were trying to at least.

They were denied on the 2nd adoption for being atheists.

In fact he was an atheist she was a Pantheist,so does believe in gods.

What happens when an adopted person marries another adopted person and they adopt a person and that person marries another adopted person and then they have a child and marry an adopted person and then somewhere in all that stupid mess, by accident, an adopted child marries his or her brother or sister or son or daughter or mother or father cos they didn't know, and they have a messed up disabled kid and when they finally do a DNA test they realize they're related, so they either throw it away in shame and/or they put that up for adoption?

Did anybody think about that?

Would that make a good movie, or would that create more disabled people we don't need?

Yeah that's right, it's all screwy.

;P ;P ;P

You must not live in New Jersey, or you'd know that this event occurred before a lot of the Neatomarans were even born.

A few of the comments here gave insights as to what you believed the future of this country might be like.

"Let it be a warning: with the United States of today being gradually overrun by Christian fundamentalist loonies, it’s only a matter of time before such attitudes become mainstream, and when that happens, you’re all done for.....I reckon that in less than 20 years from now, atheists in America will be discriminated against in more ways than this story from 1970 shows. I bet they won’t even be able to get a job."

"Unfortunately, with the way things are going in politics, it will probably be the first of many denials because of going against the Christian norm."

I believe this country is going in completely the OPPOSITE direction. Like that it won't be long before you aren't allowed to express your faith in any way...no matter what it is, for fear of stepping on someone's toes.

:p

They say they're going to put a man on the moon by next year.

A more recent story is the lady who lost custody of her child because the judge didn't like her being active in the Church of the SubGenius. Why isn't this story more in the news? It's profoundly wrong and absurd!

Let it be a warning: with the United States of today being gradually overrun by Christian fundamentalist loonies, it's only a matter of time before such attitudes become mainstream, and when that happens, you're all done for.

America has a lot of smart people. Unfortunately, they're way outnumbered by the religious twats who believe in creationist claptrap, and your educational system is already reflecting that. I reckon that in less than 20 years from now, atheists in America will be discriminated against in more ways than this story from 1970 shows. I bet they won't even be able to get a job.

Think I'm exaggerating? Look at American society today, your idiot of a president (which the Christian loonies voted into power in the first place), and then call me in 2028...

http://www.americanadoptions.com/adoption/article_view/article_id/2435  ?pg=1

IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF "E", A CHILD, BY JOHN P. BURKE AND CYNTHIA D. BURKE, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS

Supreme Court of New Jersey

59 N.J. 36; 279 A.2d 785

July 1, 1971, Decided

COUNSEL:
Mr. Albert G. Besser and Mr. Leo Pfeffer, of the New York Bar, argued the cause for plaintiffs-appellants (Messrs. Hannoch, Weisman, Stern & Besser, attorneys; Mr. Leo Pfeffer, of the New York Bar, Mr. Albert G. Besser and Mr. Dean A. Gaver on the brief).
Mr. Edward Terner argued the cause for intervenor, Children's Aid and Adoption Society of New Jersey.
Mr. Mark F. Hughes, Jr., argued the cause as court-appointed amicus curiae.
Mrs. Joan W. Murphy, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause amicus curiae for New Jersey Bureau of Children's Services (Mr. George F. Kugler, Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney; Mr. Stephen Skillman, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Miss Joan W. Murphy, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).
Mr. Arnold Jay Gold argued the cause amicus curiae for Council on Adoptable Children (Mr. Barry G. Radick on the brief).
Mr. George A. Breur argued the cause amicus curiae for New Jersey Council of Churches (Messrs. Breur and Breur, attorneys; Mr. G. Thomas Breur and Mr. George A. Breur on the brief).
Mr. Charles B. Blackmar, of the Missouri Bar, submitted a brief amicus curiae for Department of Church in Society, Division of Homeland Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada, and Division of Human Relations, Board of Christian Social Concerns, United Methodist Church.

JUDGES:
For reversal -- Chief Justice Weintraub and Justices Jacobs, Francis, Proctor, Hall, Schettino and Mountain. For affirmance -- None. The opinion of the Court was delivered by Proctor, J. Weintraub, C.J. (concurring). Weintraub and Jacobs, JJ., concur in result.

PROCTOR, J.

The county court denied plaintiffs' application for a final decree of adoption. The court held that plaintiffs' lack of belief in a Supreme Being rendered them unfit to be adoptive parents. The plaintiffs appealed to the Appellate Division, and prior to argument there, we certified the case on our own motion. We reverse.

This seems to be an archived article.