By Marci A. Hamilton, Edward R. Becker
ISBN-10: 0521853044
ISBN-13: 9780521853040
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113 During the fall of 2003, a drama began in the state of Utah involving Mormon parents, and their 12-year-old son, Parker Jensen, who was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, which is a lethal cancer. 116 They fled Utah and were wanted for kidnapping, but when they voluntarily returned, the state announced it would not seek custody of the boy for medical purposes, because the Jensens agreed to abide by the recommendations of an oncologist. When the state backed out of the picture, and the oncologist recommended nearly a year of chemotherapy and a bone marrow test, they once again asserted the cancer did not exist and refused to follow the doctor’s recommendation.
70 The defendants denied the allegations and sought the protection of the First Amendment. In one of the more extreme and unfortunate decisions in the country, the Missouri Supreme Court held that the First Amendment immunized the defendants from the law. According to the court, the action could not go forward, because the courts were not permitted to “[a]djudicat[e] the reasonableness of a church’s supervision of a cleric – what the church ‘should know’– . . ”71 Thus, a pedophile and a religious institution covering for him were relieved of any civil liability for their actions on the basis of supposed First Amendment principles.
From the children’s perspective, the harm is even more imminent than it would be if the parents were acting out of secular motivation, because in too many circumstances, the parents either do not recognize serious illness and imminent death, or they hold the misguided belief that they should not be subject to the law. xml CB900/Hamilton 0 521 85304 4 April 15, 2005 32 / GOD VS. THE GAVEL suffer permanent disability from medical neglect. The result is suffering, unnecessary death, and the martyrdom of children who have not been permitted to reach adulthood when they could make an informed choice to live or die for their religious beliefs.
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