This story, like most stories today, has so much wrong with it that it's impossible to right it. Tragically, not to mention heartbreakingly, you just can't turn things right side up in today's upside down world. Still, this story is inordinately outlandish, even by today's wrong side up standards. A District Court in Portland, Maine has ruled that a mother, Emily Bickford, cannot take her 12-year-old daughter, Ava, to church. In fact, according to Mat Staver, the chairman of Liberty Counsel, who is representing Emily and Ava in the case, the court's ruling not only prevents Emily from taking Ava back to church, but also from having any "contact with the Bible." According to Dr. Janja Lalich, the court's star witness in the case, the evangelical church, which Emily and Ava have been attending for 3 years, is a dangerous cult whose pastor is a threat to Ava's mental well-being, because he preaches the Bible as absolute truth. The case, brought by Matthew Bradeen, Ava's biological father, who was never married to Ava's mother and who broke up with her before Ava was even born, is all over Bradeen's objection to Ava's recently expressed desire to be baptized. This anti-Christian ruling by an antichrist District Court in Portland is more than "breathtaking," as Mat Staver asserts, it's an ominous omen of what's to come in the days ahead in an America that is becoming increasingly antagonistic to Christ and all things Christian.

MAINE JUDGE BLOCKS MOM FROM TAKING DAUGHTER TO CHURCH