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Judge: Boy In Tennessee Can Keep Name 'Messiah'
by SCOTT NEUMAN
September 18, 2013 1:40 PM
A judge has ruled that a Tennessee woman can name her 8-month-old son "
Messiah" — a decision that overturns a ruling last month that drew
international attention to the boy.
In a paternity hearing in August, Jaleesa Martin and Jawaan McCullough
brought a dispute over their son's surname. Martin had given her son the
name Messiah Deshawn Martin, but McCullough wanted the boy to have his last
name.
As NPR's Bill Chappell reported at the time, Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann
Ballew ruled that both of the boy's names be changed on the birth
certificate, telling Knoxville's WBIR TV: "The word Messiah is a title, and
it's a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is
Jesus Christ."
Ballew ordered that the child be named Martin DeShawn McCullough.
According to The Associated Press:
"That decision quickly made international news, and the Wisconsin-based
Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a complaint against Ballew with the
state's Board of Judicial Conduct. The board has not yet made any public
ruling on the complaint."
A ruling on Wednesday by county Chancellor Telford E. Forgety in Newport,
Tenn., overturned Ballew's decision, allowing the name on the child's birth
certificate to stand.
"Everybody's just happy," Martin was quoted by the AP as saying after the
ruling. "I'm glad it's over with." | z********o
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