Cake request for 3-year-old Hitler namesake denied

[Robert Sheridan]

Until recently, it could in France, where all children had to be named  
Didier or Marie-Claire.   This drove the Muslims and others nuts, of  
course, and now the rule has receded into the past, as I've read.  The  
town clerk simply wouldn't register non-French names.  Would the  
French take the children away from parents who named their kids  
improperly?  I can see the French removing the parents from a kid  
named "Adolf Hitler J'ne se quoi."

Here it would depend on the particular community, I suspect, but I see  
Palmore v. Sidoti looming large for some reason.  Government not  
pandering to the prejudices of the majority, I suspect.

rs


On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:39 PM, guayiya wrote:

> Family law question:  can name choice make parents unfit?  If not,  
> why not?
> Daniel Hoffman
>
> David Wagner wrote:
>> Here’s another you may like:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hNXg5FqcqZg1KUgf6PNrmnRRk-4wD95490680
>>
>> I gather the refusal of the cake-decorator was based on  
>> conscience.  This implicates something – refusal to accommodate  
>> customer demand when it clashes with provider conscience – that we  
>> were discussing a week or so ago.  (Since I support both the pro- 
>> life doctors and the no-Hitler cake decorators, I think I have a  
>> consistent position.)
>>
>> David M. Wagner
>> Regent University School of Law
>>
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