Heh, I was going to say that devoid of context, I’d think it was kind of pretty.
I’d go with “Martin Luther King” and “Yitzak Rabin”. Which probably is why I’m not in charge of CPS…
Didn’t Dean Friedman write a song about Aryan?
Yeah but that would only be an issue with Real Madrid fans.
I find “Messiah” tolerable. I wouldn’t choose it for my kid, but it could certainly be a lot worse.
Yeah, “Messiah” actually doesn’t ring funny to my ears. To me, it just kind of blends in with similar sounding names like “Jebediah,” “Zebediah,” “Isaiah,” etc. (in addition to the “Jesus” and “Emmanuel” named.)
Interestingly enough, I just checked the Social Security for “Messiah.” There are a reasonable number of dead Messiahs with Social Security numbers. See here. I count about 30 odd dead Messiahs (not counting middle names.)
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Just out of curiosity, how many dead messiahs would be unreasonable?
You should subtract one, IIRC, one Messiah didn’t stay dead.
A few others were screaming blue, too.
I’ve delt with parents who named their babies after their dog, mamma’s nasty bits, and names made up from bits of other names.
Is naming your baby King, Precious, Vulva or Myshyannne any better?
Let the people give their babies stupid names. They may be in the top baby names for 2030, who knows.
This is stupid and blatantly unconstitutional. I think magistrates in Tennessee have to be lawyers, so she should have known (and obviously didn’t care) that she wasn’t allowed to do this for all kinds of reasons.
Well, if nobody objected to the first two, I doubt it would be a problem.
Mulva?
Nice.
I’m not sure what it has to do with free speech. It’s only related to the rights of parents wrt their children.
I agree. The judge was doubly arrogant. If she honestly felt that the child’s name was offensive, the least she could do would be let the parents choose a replacement instead of taking the step of naming someone’s else’s child yourself. That’s an outrageous step for the state to take.
She has the power to choose the last name because both natural parents disagreed and the state has to be the decision maker. In this case, both parents agreed on the first name, but the judge simply changed it. I hope that not only is this reversed, but disciplinary action taken against the judge.
I’d say the judge is a little less stupid, at least the judge had the kid’s best interests at heart.
Wish a judge like that had been around when my cousin’s kids were being named. Well, the first three anyway, they actually gave #4 a normal name.
Yeah, I’m sure the parents just wanted to make life difficult for their son, for kicks.
And I don’t think the judge really cared about the kid, she cared about the fact that she considered it blasphemous.
(And again, it’s a stupid name, but that’s not the point.)
I knew of a woman in MA who named one of her boys Messiah. My daughter went to school with him. The kids were ok with it in elementary school but I don’t know about later on. He also had a sister named Galaxie.
She was named after a car?
(Well, why not? I’ve heard of women named Porsche. Not Portia; Porsche.)
Nor Jerusalem