Maine court strips a mother's church control over her daughter Ava

Maine's Supreme Judicial Court backed Matthew Brideen's veto over Calvary Chapel after hell sermons gave 12-year-old Ava panic attacks.

Judge Jennifer Noffsinger's 18-page ruling documents what Emily Bickford hid from the girl's father: an anti-abortion protest disguised as a trip to the state capital, an overnight church retreat with no phone contact, and a baptism he only learned about from a third party. The medical record does the rest of the damage, since Bickford rejected COVID and flu shots, fought the HPV vaccine, refused the proper antibiotics for Ava's pneumonia until a doctor found something she would allow, and called mental health care a hoax while insisting prayer would fix her daughter's anxiety. Pastor Travis Kerry then used the pulpit to cast Brideen as an enemy persecuting the church, and the judge transcribed six minutes of that prayer into her ruling. Cult expert Janja Lalich never called Calvary Chapel a cult, though Liberty Counsel and Mat Staver told The Christian Post she did, along with claims that Ava was banned from reading the Bible and that a lowercase "god" exposed judicial hostility to religion. Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill's unanimous opinion dismantles every one of those distortions. Kent Hovind's "Dr. Dino" doctorate traces back to Patriot Bible University's $2,000 mail-order certificates, and Kandiss Taylor's flat earth rant lands right after she complains about people who choose to be stupid. Subscribe and leave a review.

0:00 - Maine court lets Matthew Brideen block daughter Ava from Emily Bickford's Calvary Chapel
5:40 - Cult expert Janja Lalich testifies Emily Bickford's church is cult-like; baptizing minors should be illegal
11:02 - Emily Bickford's anti-vax and anti-medicine turn: Ava's pneumonia, HPV shot and anxiety dismissed
13:12 - Pastor Travis Kerry's pulpit prayer against Matthew Brideen, transcribed by the judge as inappropriate
19:47 - Judge gives Matthew Brideen final say over Ava's health care and Calvary Chapel attendance
24:22 - Liberty Counsel and Mat Staver distort the ruling; Maine Supreme Judicial Court rules unanimously for Brideen
36:13 - Kent Hovind's Dr. Dino PhD traced to Patriot Bible University's $2,000 mail-order degrees
37:45 - Kandiss Taylor's Twitter rant about "ignorant" people who choose to be stupid
38:56 - Kandiss Taylor's flat earth rant and the parody video mocking it
41:44 - Kandiss Taylor's nine-year-old's "paycheck for free" tweet and the literacy takedown it invites
42:58 - Time on EBT and Kandiss Taylor's "liberal white women are destroying America"
46:43 - The Lindsay Clancy case and the right's claim that the left supports a child killer

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