bible study book instead of community service

[Saved By Zero]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...y-service.html

What the was he thinking?

[Marcus Bryant]

There are worse things.

[DMX7]

There are worse things, but that doesn't excuse this non-sense. Just a serious lapse of judgement I guess.

[Drachen]

While I understand and completely support the striking down of this on cons utional 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 cons utionally acceptable way to implement his ideas.

[Bartleby]

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[Marcus Bryant]

While I understand and completely support the striking down of this on cons utional 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 cons utionally 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]

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!!]

this is exactly like Sharia Law!!!!

[baseline bum]

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 !"'