A Victory for Religious Freedom

Here in Michigan, a man pleaded guilty to a charge of marijuana possession in 2001. The man was told he could avoid jail time by going to a drug program. The drug program he was assigned to was a faith based program run by Pentecostals. The man was a Catholic. he was forced to read the Bible for several hours every day. The staff told him Catholicism was a form a witchcraft and confiscated his rosary and Holy communion prayer book. The man complained about it to his aunt and the program director told his aunt that the man “gave up his freedom of religion when he was placed into this program”. The man was told he would have to convert or he would not finish the program and he would go to jail. The man received no drug treatment in seven weeks at the program. He asked to placed in a secular program and the judge sent him to jail and then to boot camp because he had to be removed from the drug program he was assigned to by the court.

With help from the ACLU a district federal judge ruled that his constitutional rights had been violated in November of 2007. Michael Steinberg , legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan said,” We are thrilled with this decisive victory for religious freedom, however it is still difficult to comprehend how a man could be criminally punished in the 21st century for expressing a desire to practice Catholicism instead of another faith.”

We have to fight back spiritual Progressives and patriots. There is a domination system here today in the Unites States that is just as corrupt and foul as the domination system that existed in Jesus’ day. As in Jesus’ day, the government and the Pharisees of religion stand hand in hand. Don’t let them do it to you! Stand up always for injustice and religious freedom. Stand up against the tyrants who want to trash our constitution. If the world crucifies you, then look to Christ as an example. We must not let them destroy our country and our freedom of religion.