Faith-based prisoner rehabilitation program case awaits federal ...
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22258
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BP News - Nashville,TN,USA
Dec 12, 2005
By James Patterson
Baptist Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (BP)--After a six-week trial, a lawsuit filed by Americans
United for Separation of Church and State against a Prison
Fellowship-sponsored rehabilitation program awaits a federal judge?s
ruling.
Americans United contended that Prison Fellowship?s InnerChange Freedom
Initiative, a faith-based rehab program at Iowa?s Newton Correctional
Facility, unconstitutionally merges religion and government.
Prison Fellowship and prison officials countered that the InnerChange
program has shown positive results in bettering the lives of inmates,
especially those being paroled and returned to society.
?I think this is an extraordinarily important lawsuit because it raises so
many of the issues involved in so-called faith-based programs at the
national and state level all over the country,? Barry Lynn, executive
director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, told the
Des Moines Register.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
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[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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