An Indiana Catholic couple filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case after the state government removed their son from their home for refusing to accept his self-declared female identity.
Mary and Jeremy Cox declined to use their son’s chosen name and pronouns, which sparked an investigation by Indiana officials.
According to the Daily Mail, child protection services removed their son from their home.
“This is what every parent is afraid of,” the couple said.
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Daily Mail reports:
Upon completing the state investigation, Indiana Department of Child Services reportedly determined the allegations of abuse against Mary and Jeremy were unsubstantiated.
However, the state still argued the disagreement over gender identity was distressing to the child. In 2021, their child was taken and put in another home when they were around 15 years old.
‘Keeping a child away from loving parents because of their religious beliefs—even when the state admits there was no abuse or neglect—is wrong and it’s against the law,’ attorney Lord Windham representing the Coxes told Fox News.
‘The Court should take this case and make clear that other states can’t take children away because of ideological disagreements.’
Adding: ”If this can happen in Indiana, it can happen anywhere.’
The couple’s son reportedly told them he identified as a girl in 2019.
The Coxes refused to refer to the child with their preferred name and pronouns, citing their religious beliefs in immutable sex.
WATCH:
NEW: Catholic Indiana couple appeals to Supreme Court after their child was taken from them after they refused to refer to him as his preferred pronouns.
Utter insanity.
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Catholic Indiana couple appeals to Supreme Court after their child was taken from them after they refused to refer to him as his preferred pronouns.
Utter insanity.
In 2021, the Indiana Department of Child Services investigated parents Mary and Jeremy Cox and later took their son after they refused to refer to him as a girl.
He was then placed in a home that affirmed his gender identity.
The parents have reportedly filed a petition to the Supreme Court asking for their case to be heard.
Indiana parents warn … this can happen to you.
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A Catholic couple in Indiana is asking the Supreme Court to hold the state accountable for keeping their child out of their home after they declined to use his chosen name and pronouns.
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From the National Catholic Register:
On Thursday the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty announced that Mary and Jeremy Cox had filed a petition with the Supreme Court, asking the high court to “hold the state accountable for keeping their child out of their home.”
“This is what every parent is afraid of. We love our son and wanted to care for him, but the state of Indiana robbed us of that opportunity by taking him from our home and banning us from speaking to him about gender,” the parents said in the release.
“We are hopeful that the justices will take our case and protect other parents from having to endure the nightmare we did.”
In their filing, the petitioners noted that Indiana “found the parents fit but still removed the child over an ideological dispute.”
“Although Indiana found all allegations of abuse and neglect unsubstantiated, it refused to return [the child] home, substituting the judgment of the state for that of admittedly fit parents,” the filing said.
Read the complete filing HERE.