Written by Don Byrd
Earlier I posted about a judge in Oklahoma who sentenced a teenager to attend church regularly as part of his probation period. Not too surprisingly, a judicial complaint has now been filed. The Oklahoman has more:
“Judge Norman’s decision to give this defendant a choice between church and prison cannot be enforced without illegal governmental intrusion into a young man’s conscience,” said Brady Henderson, legal director of the ACLU of Oklahoma. “Not only is this inconsistent with our nation’s fundamental guarantees of freedom of worship, it is also offensive to the very religion it is meant to advance. Acts of worship should come from a freely made choice to adopt a faith, not from the government giving its citizens an ultimatum to sit either in a pew or a prison cell.
