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Parents have the right to only make a mistake once with their child? ANd so what if society is uncomfortable or doesnt like it? Thats the same ruling and justification given re the Messiah name. Its simply ironic and telling that people would decry the judge for involvement in one case but support it in the other.Because the parents already chose a name for their child. They wanted to change it to something easily viewed as offensive for others to say. Just as a parent could not change their child's name to "WhitePeopleDeserveToDie". It would be their choice but still would be offensive for others to say and violate their rights in saying it. Reasonable person viewpoint. Messiah is not offensive for most others (reasonable standpoint) to say, those other names would be. The article did a good job of showing a couple of very legitimate reasons/ways it could be offensive to others for a person to have either "JesusIsLord" or "ChristIsKing" as their name. A teacher isn't allowed to make such a declaration in class on her own, why should it be okay for a parent to use their child to force others to make that declaration? And there is no mistaken this for anything other than a religious statement, much unlike a name like Messiah which is easily a legitimate name.