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Saved By Zero
03-31-2011, 04:55 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371561/Preaching-judge-backs-offering-offenders-choice-reading-bible-study-book-community-service.html

What the hell was he thinking?
Marcus Bryant
03-31-2011, 05:54 PM
There are worse things.
DMX7
03-31-2011, 06:04 PM
There are worse things, but that doesn't excuse this non-sense. Just a serious lapse of judgement I guess.
Drachen
03-31-2011, 06:20 PM
While I understand and completely support the striking down of this on constitutional grounds, I do have to applaud the judge for trying to think outside of the box and offer a punishment that he hopes can help decrease the recidivism rate.

I hope he can find a constitutionally acceptable way to implement his ideas.
Bartleby
03-31-2011, 06:25 PM
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Marcus Bryant
03-31-2011, 06:39 PM
While I understand and completely support the striking down of this on constitutional grounds, I do have to applaud the judge for trying to think outside of the box and offer a punishment that he hopes can help decrease the recidivism rate.

I hope he can find a constitutionally acceptable way to implement his ideas.

Perhaps a list of books which offer the notion that there is more to life than yourself? Make discussion of spirituality optional.
Drachen
03-31-2011, 07:13 PM
Perhaps a list of books which offer the notion that there is more to life than yourself? Make discussion of spirituality optional.

Bingo!
Oh, Gee!!
03-31-2011, 08:14 PM
this is exactly like Sharia Law!!!!
baseline bum
03-31-2011, 09:21 PM
I'm not a big fan of reading fiction, but I'd take it over forced community service. I thought Churchill's kid had the best interpretation of the book:



Winston Churchill's son Randolph somehow contrived to remain ignorant of scripture until Evelyn Waugh and a brother officer, in a vain attempt to keep Churchill quiet when they were posted together during the war, bet him he couldn't read the entire Bible in a fort-night: 'Unhappily it has not had the result we hoped. He has never read any of it before and is hideously excited; keeps reading quotations aloud "I say I bet you didn't know this came in the Bible..." or merely slapping his side & chortling "God, isn't God a shit!"'