A while back, a story hit the wire about a Tennessee judge ordering a woman to change her child’s name from ‘Messiah’.
The mother and father could not agree on a last name, thus they ended up in family court. Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew ordered that the child’s name be changed to ‘Martin DeShawn McCullogh’, which would include both parents’ last names but left out the child’s original name as given by the parents, ‘Messiah’.
“The word ‘Messiah’ is a title, and it’s a title that has only been earned by one person – and that one person is Jesus Christ,” Ballew said.
An attorney for the mother said they appealed Ballew’s decision for two reasons; the parents agreed on the first name and the initial ruling was unconstitutional. On Wednesday, Chancellor Telfor Fogerty Jr. overturned Ballew’s decision, ruling that the court did indeed act unconstitutionally.
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Source: USAToday
