 |
Speak Up! - View Question #175 |
|
| « LawForKids.org home page | « Go back to speak up question #175 |
Question: Can my parents Force me to go to Church ? I am Atheist.
Answer: It all depends on your age or capacity. If you are a child or have been found to be incompetent, then yes, the parents of a minor child or guardian of an incompetent person can force the child or incompetent person to go to church (or anywhere else within reason).
For practical purposes, the Constitution (First Amendment), protects your right to BELIEVE anything you want to BELIEVE, regardless of every other factor. So, even if forced to attend a ceremony you don't believe in, your freedom of belief is protected.
|
|
| Comments |
| 6 thru 10 of 63 comments |
On 04/11/04
dawn from PA said:
this just happened to me 2day, easter. i'm an athiest and i finally got fed up wit my mom. i told her i wasn't going to church nemore. well the rest of my family's at church right now and i'm sittin here typin this. b4 she left my mom threatened to take away everythin i own, stop feedin me, and stop givin me money for lunch. look i don't disrespect people who are christian, but what right do they have to try and make me believe what they do? how would they like it if they were told they couldn't be christian nemore? now im seriously afraid my parents might try and starve me or somethin. HELP!
|
On 04/02/04
Jordey Clorde from OH said:
my parents have blackmailed me to go to church which leads me farther from god, if a religion doesnt respect you for your own beliefs than it isnt a very good religion, and besiedes i think religions are getting more and more like cults
|
On 03/12/04
meagan from MA said:
I dont think that your parents should force you to go to church. You
have your right of what you believe and you shouldn't be forced to
listen to others beliefs.Being a kid that should not change what you
think. Your parents chose their religion, so why can't you choose
yours? If you don't agree with what they say at church, then why
should you go? It is not fair that because your parents chose to
bring you up in their religion of choice that you should
automatically have to follow their footsteps. They should understand
that if you are respecting their beliefs, they should res
|
On 03/12/04
Meagan from MA said:
I disagree that you believe in God and his ways. There is no
evidential proof that there is a god, so how can so many people
belive in something and devote their lives to it? I respect your
views that there is a God, but you cannot tell others that you are
right about it and that you know it, because yo don't. Religion has
caused numerous debates and wars in the world and there is no point
in fighting about it. No matter how hard anyone fights, we cannot
prove that there is a God or any other mythylogical figure. You say
tomato, I said tamato! Religion is all a matter of opinio
|
On 03/10/04
Dawn from IN said:
Why are we fighting about who's right or wrong here. Do what your parents want until your old enough to change it. Jesus died so that people can walk the streets ( a.k.a. the internet) claiming not to beleive in him. Thats why he suffered for us. So we can sin. God gave us the power to choose, and a Son to die so we can beleive or disbeleive and be forgiven anways.Belive or don't. Either way you will die and there is an eternity after it. You will be judged, like it or not. So live in sin now, pay an eternity of pain later. Its your call. But you don't have to go to church to beleive.
|
| 6 thru 10 of 63 comments |
|
|
| Read more about the law and Family |
|
| « LawForKids.org home page | « Go back to speak up question #175 |
|