I'm forced to go to church and i don't want to. Also, in the past I adopted a new religion and my family mocked and still mocks me about it today. Is forcing and mocking examples of religious intolerance. Can I sue my family out of money? Whats the legal terms. Plz provide sources if possible.
2006-11-23 02:40:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
CAn i bring this to court
2006-11-23 02:49:10 · update #1
Sounds like you are a kid still living at home?
If so.. you have no choices until you are emotionally maturely financially able to take care of yourself with your own place
People will mock unusual or out of the norm religions ( Wicca I presume?)
If you are living on your own..
not to sure how you are forced to go to parents house, and are hog tied to get you into church
2006-11-23 02:50:41 · answer #1 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on you age - if you are an adult (which I do not suspect) then someone forcing you to do anything (really forcing? At gunpoint?) is illegal. However, if you are a child, then you're parents forcing you to do something is not only OK, it has the blessing of the Supreme Court. While the court has recognized that children don't give up all of their consitutional rights, they're rights are different - its why things like city curfews can be passed against teens but not against adults. On the other hand, the Court has recognized that the right of a parent to raise their child as they fit, free from government interference is fundamental and can only be disturbed in very exceptional cases. So the bottom line is that yuo would have to emancipate yourself from your parents - but to do that you would need to show that you are self supported (can live on your own and work, etc.). The state will not grant the request of a minor to be emancipated if all that means is that you would become the state's problem - i.e. welfare.
2006-11-23 14:36:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it seems to me that you are being an angsty teen. why is going to church all that bad anyways? if you have adopted a new religion then going to your family's church can only educate you. by that i do not mean that you are wrong in your religious prefference, but that you cannot back up you own beliefs to non believers if you don't educate yourself on other religions. i assume that the church your parents go to is christian in root. and even if you don't agre with everything they teach, you must admit that christianity in general teaches fundamental sets of morals that you yourself probably agree with. with this said one sunday out of every week really can't be that bad.
suing your family is a joke. you want their money? why because they cut your alowance off for being a jackass? you have no legal right to sue them for trying to make you an upstanding citizen. and the only legal option you have is to be emancipated, which by the way wont happen just because you feel that they won't tolerate your religious freedoms. there has to be an underlying justifiable cause.
2006-11-24 00:32:15 · answer #3 · answered by Mannerd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, your constitutional freedoms, religeous or otherwise, are all freedom from the government, so don't look there for help with family.
I take it you're a minor, otherwise they couldn't force you to go. If my family tried to force me, they'd show up at the house and I just wouldn't answer the door, but I haven't lived at home for over 30 years.
The only things you can do are probably more likely to be destructive than helpful. You can sue for emancipation, but then you'd have to support yourself. You can get the Department of Family Services involved to try to force them into family counseling so they have to listen to you, but odds are that they'll be as enthused about that as you are about church. You can do something rebellious like going Goth and not talking to anyone in your family at all, but since communication is the problem, I doubt silence is the solution.
You're just going to have to accept the fact that you're a minor, and short of physical abuse, you have to put up with your family until you're ready to move out.
2006-11-23 10:53:25 · answer #4 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No forcing and mocking is not examples of religious intolerance. You have the right to go to any church you want and chose what religion u want. Ur parents should know this if they are good christians. Talk to their pastor and tell him how you feel and he can talk to your parents about this. I really don't think you can sue your family over this. The main thing is that you go to church (of your choice) and believe. Sometimes parents try to protect their children to much. Maybe they think that it is some type of cult. You should try to invite them to your chuch to show them that it is a nice church and this is want you want. Good Luck
2006-11-23 10:49:47 · answer #5 · answered by Andie F 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Listen, you say you are religious.
The get some f*cking morals, read whatever book your religion has as its guideline again and dont be such a dumbass.
No you shouldnt sue your family. No you dont need to go to church, although with thoughts of sueing your family for that maybe you should pay some attention next time in that church of yours.
2006-11-23 10:54:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
you are a child and need to learn respect of your parents,
Wish you were my child a few trips to the wood shed and you would love to go anywhere I told you.
You are what is wrong with American socity today, the worst example of children gone bad
2006-11-23 14:51:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get emancipated from your family you wouldn't get any money tho
2006-11-23 10:43:20 · answer #8 · answered by halicon2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋