Posted on 06/03/2006 9:55:43 AM PDT by Glenn
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A judge has ruled that a Bible-based prison program violates the First Amendment's freedom of religion clause by using state funds to promote Christianity to inmates.
Prison Fellowship Ministries, which was sued in 2003 by an advocacy group, was ordered Friday to cease its program at the Newton Correctional Facility and repay the state $1.53 million.
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"Americans United for Separation of Church and State"
... I would have guessed the ACLU...
Insanity
Don't worry, we still have the liberal's program of protecting criminals and disarming lawabiding citizens. Don't you feel safer now?
They really, really, live in an upside down world, don't they.
See, liberals want to keep the prisoners angry and unregenerate, then they want to give them the right to vote. If they convert to Christianity, they might become Republicans.
What did they use the $1.53 million for?
I believe this is Chuck Colson's group. They have done marvelous things...one left wing judge changes that.
I hope that one day before it's too late that right-thinking people will start using tar and feathers on lawyers and judges who are trying to destroy America.
How did an "advocacy group" get standing to sue?
Amazing.
How convoluted thinking can get separation of church and state our of this is insane.
"It has attacked the right of people of faith to operate on a level playing field..."
Wrong. If someone could get taxpayer money to run a prison program that promotes atheism, then the playing field might be leveled by the Christian program.
As it stands, pushing religion is not a legal use of state funds. For anybody. That's level.
Liberals are trying to turn prisons into Gulags.
Of course, prisoners who convert to Christianity have lower recidivism rates than prisoners who do not find religion.
I have long suspected prisons have become such cash cows prisoner rehabilitation is not being encouraged.
Here's a link to the dangerous fundamentalist of religious fanatics:
http://www.prisonfellowship.org/default_pf_org.asp
Thank goodness this judge is keeping the prisons safe for Islam and Shari'a.
(end bitter sarcasm)
I hope O'Reilly "factors" this judge.
Once again, Satan throws his head back and laughs. One day, when it's much too late, these people will realize how wrong they are and how they have been used by evil.
>IMHO, they will just help some of the Muslim inmates to turn them
into state-supported mosques.
Yes. That's a religion I want violent men converting to.(Sarcasm)
IOW the judge has used state money to PROHIBIT the excercise of religion.
I swear lawyers and judges have never read the constitution.
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