Taking Away Your Children For Over 50 Years...

If you watch "Family Guy" you'll probably understand the title of today's post.

A family in New Jersey that gave their children names that have links to Nazis has had their children taken away by the State. No reason was given. Here's the link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28655143/?GT1=43001Now let me say something: I am no Nazi sympathizer and I think what Hitler did was horrible. I also think the parents were stupid to give their children names like "Adolf Hitler" and "JoyceLynn Aryan Nation". It was bound to cause controvery. But, what are they guilty of? Bad taste? If that's the case, think of the oddball celebrity baby names out there: Zuma, Dweezil, Moon Unit, Bronx Mowgli, etc. etc. Were these children mistreated? Were they underfed and undernourished? Again, no reason was given. Surely to God they can't take the children away based on their names. Was it because of the names that the parents are tagged antisemitic? Well, if that's the case, then every Christian parent that's told their children that "the Jews killed Jesus" should have their children taken away. Just to clarify something: the Jews *did not* kill Jesus. The Romans did. The Jews didn't crucify people as capital punishment. They stoned them. It was the Romans who used crucifixion. But I digress...

The father of the children in question is quoted in a separate article saying that he said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently. "Say he [the son] grows up and hangs out with black people. That's fine, I don't really care," he said. "That's his choice." So, in other words they're not hatemongers. They just have bad taste.

Perhaps there is more to the story than meets the eye, but it makes you wonder who the real Nazis are that the State can get away with this. No matter what the State came up with as an excuse, I'd take it with a grain of salt. Surely I'm not the only one who finds this outrageous.