In the news today is a story about an Alabama town that has started an alternative sentencing program that would give non-violent offenders a new choice:
Go to jail, or go to church.
"Starting next week, the program will allow a city judge to sentence misdemeanor offenders to work off their sentences in jail and pay a fine, or go to church every Sunday for a year. Offenders who select church can pick the place of worship but must check in weekly with the pastor and the police department. If the one-year church attendance program is completed successfully, the offender's case will be dismissed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/offenders-in-ala-town-can_n_977687.html
“This is a simply offensive idea, that both violated the "Separation of Church and State", while denigrating Christianity.
We need to begin with the basic truth that "America is a Secular nation, populated by predominantly by Christians".
To force non-Christians to go to church violates their right to freedom of religion. Remember America was founded in large part by Christians fleeing a Christian country, on the basis of religious persecution NO AMERICAN SHOULD BE FORCED to attend church.
I am amazed that all Christians are not deeply offended by the idea of going to church being use as a "Punishment" Going to services should be a JOY, not a form of discipline. This is an insult to all of those attending services out of true belief.
Our founding fathers designed a form of government that kept the Church and the state separate, not to punish religion but to protect it from government.”
Go to jail, or go to church.
"Starting next week, the program will allow a city judge to sentence misdemeanor offenders to work off their sentences in jail and pay a fine, or go to church every Sunday for a year. Offenders who select church can pick the place of worship but must check in weekly with the pastor and the police department. If the one-year church attendance program is completed successfully, the offender's case will be dismissed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/offenders-in-ala-town-can_n_977687.html
“This is a simply offensive idea, that both violated the "Separation of Church and State", while denigrating Christianity.
We need to begin with the basic truth that "America is a Secular nation, populated by predominantly by Christians".
To force non-Christians to go to church violates their right to freedom of religion. Remember America was founded in large part by Christians fleeing a Christian country, on the basis of religious persecution NO AMERICAN SHOULD BE FORCED to attend church.
I am amazed that all Christians are not deeply offended by the idea of going to church being use as a "Punishment" Going to services should be a JOY, not a form of discipline. This is an insult to all of those attending services out of true belief.
Our founding fathers designed a form of government that kept the Church and the state separate, not to punish religion but to protect it from government.”
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