Messiah V. Martin

A stipulation of facts has been entered into in the Tennessee judicial disciplinary proceeding involving the Magistrate who changed a child’s name from Messiah to Martin.

The stipulation notes that the “father [of the child] and his family were concerned about the child being named Messiah.”

Further, it is stipulated that the magistrate found that the name change was in the child’s best interests, that only Jesus Christ may hold the title and that the name Messiah “places an undue burden on him as a human being, he cannot fulfill.” (Mike Frisch)