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  • Atheist group accuses Indiana sheriff's office of 'pushing Christianity' on inmates after hundreds baptized

    01/22/2023 10:54:57 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 34 replies
    Fox News ^ | January 22, 2023 12:57pm EST | Jon Brown
    A prominent atheist group has issued multiple complaints accusing an Indiana sheriff’s office of “[pushing] Christianity onto inmates” after hundreds of detainees have been baptized in recent years. An attorney for the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has fired off multiple letters to former Decatur County Sheriff David Durant accusing the Decatur County Detention Center of “multiple constitutional violations” by “promoting Christianity and coercing detainees into participating in religious exercises.” On Dec. 29, the sheriff’s office posted photos on its Facebook page of dozens of inmates being baptized. […] Durant, who left office on Jan. 1 following a four-year term...