Pissed off Wiccan for Peace: Chicago Tribune | Faith-based organizations face suits

Monday, January 02, 2006

Chicago Tribune | Faith-based organizations face suits

Chicago Tribune | Faith-based organizations face suits

"The existing regulations are meant to prevent cases such as that of Joseph Hanas. After he pleaded guilty to marijuana possession, a county drug court judge in Michigan gave the 23-year-old Flint construction worker a choice: agree to live for a year at Inner City Christian Outreach, a faith-based residential facility, or be sent to jail. Hanas chose Inner City, which is run by a Pentecostal church.

At Inner City, staffers told Hanas that his Roman Catholic faith was "witchcraft" and prevented his priest from visiting him or giving him his rosary beads, Hanas said.

And instead of substance-abuse treatment, Hanas said he was forced to read the Bible several hours each day, attend five hours of church on Sundays and was told the only way he would successfully complete the program was to convert to the Pentecostal church.

"I felt helpless. I was threatened by prison and jail by the pastor the whole time I was in there," Hanas said. After three months, the judge responded to his complaints by removing him and sending him to jail.

No one at Inner City returned a phone call for comment, and it couldn't be immediately determined what taxpayer money, if any, his program has received.

The ACLU has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have Hanas released on probation on grounds that the drug court, by sending him to Inner City, violated Hanas' 1st Amendment right to free exercise of religion as well as the "establishment" clause requiring the separation of church and state."

Does the "I TOLD YOU SO" dance while laughing hysterically. I said this would happen, I really did! And sure enough! The majority of xtians CAN'T help people without trying to convert them. They are physically incapable of it! And they wonder why we don't trust them! The Spanish Inquisition and The Burning Times taught them NOTHING!

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6 Comments:

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By Snowbear, at 5:01 PM

I am not one bit surprised.

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.he who is known as sefton

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