A Madison County father celebrated a legal victory Wednesday night. He now has joint custody of his three young children after losing it because of his religious views.

Craig Scarberry claimed a Madison County court violated his parental rights because he's an atheist. The Indiana Court of Appeals has now ordered those parental rights to be restored while his case is on appeal. Scarberry's custody arrangement was reduced to alternating weekends plus four hours a week when the lower court reportedly took his religious doubts into consideration.

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