Double baptism? Ugh oh!

[MysticWitch]

What happens if a kid is baptised and then the other parent baptized the child in a different church under a different religion, legally is that okay? Will the 1st church cast you out from further persuing the path within the church if they find out? :weirdsmil
(Not a personal issue)

[Wiccanizer]

You're gonna have to be a little more specific as to what churches are involved exactly. They all have different rules. I think the Catholic Chruch wouldn't be too thrilled, for one.

[Tanya]

I don't think in the US you can be legally any religion. Seperation of church and state would seem to imply a person can't be forced to be any paticular religion at all. If your spouse has baptised your child in some other faith, I would just blow it off, they did it for their own sense of 'doing the right thing.' Your child's under no requirement to be anything, no mater who smears what on them.
As far as the religious organization is concerned, most are desperate for members, and won't hold it against the kid if Dad took them down to the Pentacostals one day for a dippin but you wanted to raise her Jewish.

[Amethyst Rose]

Heh. My grandma (Catholic) married my grandpa (Jewish)... my dad was their first born.

Eight days after he was born, he was circumcized in a Jewish ceremony, like all good Jewish boys should be. My grandfather's family was extremely pleased that my grandmother had such good sense.

The following week he was baptized by the Catholic church.... today, he's an Athiest. :D

As far as I know, neither religions 'found out' about the other 'induction into religion', (that's what baptism, etc. really are). It's not like the churches shared information on who was being baptized what....or that the members of each faith mingled together and talked much.

In any case, I really don't think it would matter....one doesn't cancel out the other...how can you cancel out a dedication to god? :)

[MysticWitch]

That is very good points. I will have to tell my friend this. They were in a panic because they are catholic and their child was baptized I think, Johova by the grandma. I didn't have ANY advice to give them. :wave:

[Holly Ariadna]

LOL kinda funny. I have no clue what the Catholic Church would say, but I'm guessing the second baptism doesn't count (besides, can the baby really be baptised without the parents' consent?).. They should ask a priest!

[Cindlady2]

Well, I was born and baptized Catholic.... My mom remarried a lutheran and he adopted me so I was baptized lutheran... The I married a catholic and the father asked me to be baptized catholic... I told him I already had been and he said "Well, that should stick then!" LOL... You could baptize me another 3 or 4 times if you like... I'm still Pagan! Always have been! :boquet: