DOBBS DEVOTEE FUCKOVER
Perversion of Judgement

From the Cleveland Free Times:

Soon after meeting at X-day, Steve and Rachel were a couple, enthusiastically taking part in the mockery that is the heart and soul of the SubGenius faith.

Poking fun at religion throughout history has led to people wearing funny costumes or taking off their clothes. And if you're performing and not shy about it, there are likely to be pictures — which the members of the Church of the SubGenius gleefully post at their Web site. So when Jeff Jary decided he wanted to play hardball over custody of his and Rachel's son, it wasn't hard for him to find and download a dozen photos of Rachel taken at X-day.

Once the boy was in upstate New York for a holiday visit, Jary and his lawyer filed for sole custody in Orleans County Court. In support of the request, they showed the judge a picture of Rachel as Mary Magdelen, in the nude and getting a tattoo. They showed a picture of Steve — known among the SubGenius as Lord Jesus Christ — wearing a clown suit in a mock passion play with a crucifix festooned with pool-noodle dollar signs, while a crowd of partially clothed people, including a woman holding a dildo, look on. There's a picture of Rachel in a costume parade called the Deity Ball, in which she's wearing a black mesh bondage suit with a papier-maché goat's head mask perched atop her trim shoulders.

Jary also claimed that Rachel was homeless. But at a subsequent hearing, it became clear that Judge James Punch had been far more concerned with the photos when he awarded custody to Jary. Punch spent a lot of time on those photos, and he didn't get the joke.

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I've been a non-affiliated silent supporter of the Church of the SubGenius for many years--I've even had them linked to Real Art from the moment I figured out how deal with links. Their entire organization's existence, their absurdist events all geared around ruthless satire of religion, politics, and power, the whole thing adds up to one gigantic piece of ongoing performance art. Real Art, that is, in that the net effect is to attack the people in our sick society who need attacking the most. But like the high school art teacher who lost her job recently because topless art photos of her were discovered online by employers, it doesn't matter, morally, that this SubGenius woman's art is the reason she's lost custody of her child: if she wants to run around naked while making fun of religion, she can do that, whether it's art or just a weird fetish. It doesn't have a damned thing to do with how she raises her child, and this, as with what's happening to the art teacher, is an intolerable outrage. There is no good argument based on her SubGenius activities that can make this woman into a bad mother. It's completely clear that the judge in the case is using his own variety of Christian morality to substitute for the law. And that's not just wrong; it's illegal. The son of a bitch should be thrown off the bench right now and ordered to pay damages for the way he's used his authority to fuck over an innocent woman.

Fortunately, she's retained new legal representation, the same heavyweights who have defended Larry Flynt for obscenity, and in half an hour they convinced Fuckover Judge to recuse himself--they also got a change of venue. The sad thing is that she's now going to be out tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees all because of a bogus child custody dispute presided over by a judge who simply shouldn't be on the bench. Anywhere.

Wanna donate to her legal fund? Click here.

You know, maybe it's time I finally coughed up the thirty bucks it takes to become an ordained minister for the Church. Maybe I will...



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