[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Judge Smails

Under my hypothesis, the kid told his father it was for church attendance, and the bishop and stake president wouldn't tell the father otherwise due to confidentiality. In that scenario, the father isn't lying to the newspaper. He's telling them what he's been told by his son. If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense.

Again, I'm not even suggesting my hypothesis is correct. You could be right about it just being a power struggle. Without knowing anything about the story, I'm going to lean towards the bishop's discretion. Bishops are human, they are all different, and they certainly make errors, but I just can't fathom there is a bishop out there with such poor judgment as to have made the determination that the father has outlined.

It didn't happen that way...whatever happened.

Non-disclosable sources now verify it is simply a power struggle. The kid lost and the bishop won.