Notice of Press Conference at Maine Supreme Court

Nov 13, 2025

PORTLAND, ME – Today, Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver, along with client Emily Bickford, will hold a press conference outside in front of the Maine Supreme Court at approximately 2:05 p.m. EST. This press conference will follow the oral arguments in Bickford v. Bradeen where Bickford, a single mother, has been barred by an unconstitutional custody order from taking her 12-year-old daughter to church or religious organizations. The order also allows prohibiting the daughter from reading the Bible. Bickford is appealing the custody order that declared her church’s mainstream biblical teachings to be “psychologically harmful” and granted the child’s father, who objected to the teachings, the sole right to govern the girl’s religious activities.

Liberty Counsel seeks a reversal of this unlawful custody order and restoration of the mother’s First Amendment right to pass on her religious beliefs to her child.

Under the U.S. Constitution, federal law, and numerous Supreme Court precedents, unmarried parents both have the right to instill their religious beliefs into their children during their respective custodial time. The First Amendment does not allow for this blatant and overt hostility towards religious beliefs.

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