-=> Ross Sauer wrote to All <=-   
      
    RS> Starting next week, the program will allow a city judge to sentence   
    RS> misdemeanor offenders to work off their sentences in jail and pay a   
    RS> fine, or go to church every Sunday for a year. Offenders who select   
    RS> church can pick the place of worship but must check in weekly with the   
    RS> pastor and the police department. If the one-year church attendance   
    RS> program is completed successfully, the offender's case will be   
    RS> dismissed.   
      
   This seems like something that would totally violate the separation of   
   Church and state.  As a former LEO, I don't understan why it would be up   
   to the police department to enforce this?  If this was the case I would   
   see if they had a local Unitarian Church to attend?  I wonder if they   
   picked the Hindu Temple as their place of worship if that would fly...   
   or the local Mosque.   
      
   You can't legislate morality... every time it's tried it fails!   
      
    RS> The Alabama branch of the American Civil Liberties Union plans to send   
    RS> Bay Minette officials a letter demanding that they suspend the program.   
      
   I wonder how successfult that was?   
      
    RS>  City officials did not immediately return calls from The Associated   
    RS> Press.   
      
   Working for City government her in Louisville, KY this is no surprise.   
      
   Wow... I don't know how I missed this one.   
      
   Allen   
      
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