Tennessee judge won't let parents name their child "messiah".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm really okay with Adolph Hitler and Aryan Nation's parents getting shit on for being awful and naming their kids that.

Ultimately, its the kids who pay for the parents getting shit on, though.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

If anything kids will make fun of another kid's name if it can be mocked with a similar sounding word. The name itself isn't what causes the mocking, it's just a means to do so.

[AFK]

Names shouldn't be banned, but kids should be able to change their name without their parents' permission. 


So when Messiah turns 7 and says, fuck no, he/she should have recourse to pick a new name. 

[Triple Zero]

What about Bobby Tables?

On the one hand they say it's a lesson in not accepting unsanitized user-input, but on the other hand they made their kid's name a WEAPONIZED CYBER ATTACK ...

In a world dominated by the von Neumann computing paradigm, a world where there is no inherent distinction between CODE = DATA, can you really make a distinction between Freedom of Speech (DATA) and "freedom of action*" (CODE EXECUTION) ?

* there is probably a proper legal term for this, I'm referring to the fact that while you should be able to SAY anything you want, you cannot just DO anything you want, there's rules against certain acts

[Eater of Clowns]

Looks like a pretty complex case.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Looks like a pretty complex case.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

[Junkenstein]

Seems like it may just be Tennessee bullshit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23626986

There were 762 American baby boys named Messiah last year, and that figure is growing. The Social Security Administration ranks it the fourth fastest-growing name for baby boys - it leapt from 633rd in 2011 to 387th in 2012. And it's not just a boy's name or a first name.

The rest is pretty much a puff piece with a guy who is 26 and also called Messiah in NY. No real problems for him it seems.

[LMNO]

They could always go for the "Intentional Mispelling" gambit and call him Messayah.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

They could always go for the "Intentional Mispelling" gambit and call him Messayah.

Or wait for a girl and call her Miss Aiya.

[Junkenstein]

Just think. The generations now being born will be the first to truly understand how to give your child a good troll name.

It's really just a matter of time until we get the story about little baby Satan/Antichrist.

[Bruno]

I think the judge just has a God complex, herself. GOD personally put her in a position of power so that she would enforce HIS will on the heathens in her kingdom.

I mean it says so right in the bible. (Romans 13)

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

GLORY!

[Wolfgang Absolutus]

It's the only way to save him from the jews and the catholics.

[P3nT4gR4m]

If anything kids will make fun of another kid's name if it can be mocked with a similar sounding word. The name itself isn't what causes the mocking, it's just a means to do so.

THIS! When I was at primary school my name was (and still is) normal and boring as fuck. So the mean kids would tant me with shit that rhymed and try and piss me off that way. It didn't piss me off but I'd beat the shit out them anyway since they'd obviously gone to all the effort and it seemed rude not to.

I'm with Junkenstein. The only real thing I learned at school, that I couldn't have picked up on my own was - violence is the only 100% effective form of communication

[von]

They could always go for the "Intentional Mispelling" gambit and call him Messayah.

Could always go to the root of things and call him Moshiach....or pick an abscure language and name him whatever "covered in oil" translates to.

Better...he is now called "greasy": simple english for one who is covered in oil.