Joe, I suspect that the court is limited to deciding yea or nay on the issue presented before it. That issue being approval or disapproval of the Pledge in its current form. If the two sides went to mediation, the mediator could possibly propose the solution that your stepson and I favor and the two sides could settle the issue on that basis.

Of course, that would require everybody involved to be reasonable, which is an unreasonable expectation.

Jeff