Child custody cases are often fraught with trying and unusual behaviors and demands, but the recent custody order from a judge in Maine has taken bigotry against Christians to a new level.
Emily Bickford had a daughter, Ava who turns 13 in January, with Matt Bradeen. The two were not married, and Emily has retained primary custody while the father has visitation rights.
Emily is Christian and has worked to provide a foundation of faith for her daughter, something her non-custodial father opposes. He has been described as ‘hating’ Christianity.
Bradeen took the issue to court, found a former ACLU president who had become a judge, and the war on religion commenced.-------
The order is even more intrusive.
Per Liberty Council:
Ava cannot associate with any of her church friends or any member of Calvary Chapel Portland. If Ava meets a new friend outside of Calvary and that person begins attending Calvary, Ava must cut ties with that friend.Ava cannot attend ANY Christmas, Easter, or any other Christian event or celebration at ANY church, including any wedding, funeral, or even hospital visits with anyone associated with Calvary Chapel. Ava cannot have any contact or participation with ANY religious organization (which would include Salvation Army or a food bank, homeless shelter, or crisis pregnancy center). Ava cannot read the Bible or religious literature or be exposed to any “religious philosophy.” Matt Bradeen is even using the court’s custody order to insist that Emily cannot read the Bible or teach Ava ANYTHING about the Christian faith! I wish this were not real, but sadly it is.
The order has cut the child from an essential source of emotional support and forced her to lose friends during a key time in the social development of a child, and has been ongoing since December of 2024.
Last Thursday, Liberty Council presented oral arguments before the Maine Supreme Court to overturn this outrageous custody order.
“The majority of justices said the order is hostile toward religion and that it used a ‘nuclear option’ by taking all decision-making away from an unquestionably fit parent regarding the religious upbringing of her daughter,” Staver concluded.
Ava and her mother now await the Maine Supreme Court’s decision.
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According to Fox News, Judge Hector Ramon freed a man named Vicente Aguilera-Chavez on Oct. 31, without requiring him to post bail.
Then, during a hearing a week ago, he released another man named Agustin Sandoval, also on his own recognizance.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1987625289174732958
Both men are charged in connection with a 2017 nightclub parking lot shooting that killed 21-year-old Edu Veliz-Salgado and wounded another man in Santa Clara County, KTVU-TV reported.
The case went cold for years until detectives in the city of Sunnyvale identified the two suspects last year.
Yet despite the severity of the charges, Judge Ramon released both defendants back into the community without requiring bail.
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen told Fox News that two accused killers are now freely walking his community.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/outrage-erupts-judge-releases-two-murder-suspects-without/
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Constellation Energy has secured a $1 billion federal loan from the Energy Department's Loan Programs Office (LPO) to restart the Unit 1 reactor at the Three Mile Island reactor plant in Pennsylvania.
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One person said the CEO had planned to leave the country the day of his arrest...
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