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Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber
It has nothing to do with one god being "better" than theother. I said making me worship someone else's god is different than asking me to worship my own god. Get it?
Government has NO BUSINESS making any American worship any God.
Not in a legal sense it wasn't. "Church" isn't an alternative punishment to "jail" by any law. He may as well just have said "You should go to jail but if you come over and be my slave for a year I'll let you off". It's a choice, right?
Not in a legal sense it wasn't. "Church" isn't an alternative punishment to "jail" by any law. He may as well just have said "You should go to jail but if you come over and be my slave for a year I'll let you off". It's a choice, right?
Choice #1: Prison
Choice #2: 10 year probation, ancke bracelet, making speeches, drinking monitoring and the church.
You seem to think his entire sentence was to go to church.
You seem to think his entire sentence was to go to church.
And what you continue to fail to grasp is that making church a condition of his punishment is outside the authority of the judge! He is not allowed to do that. Period. No discussion, no debate, he acted outside what his statutory and constitutional authority allowed, and frankly, in such an egregious manner, he should face sanctions and probably disbarment.
"The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma has filed a judicial complaint against a Muskogee County district judge who sentenced a teenager to attend church for 10 years as a condition of parole."
Some of these people just can't be convinced that the kid was given a choice.
And some of you can't get it through your head that church cannot be that choice. The judge went above the law when giving that choice.
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