It’s Jesus or jail in Alabama
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It’s either Jesus or jail for small-time offenders in Bay Minette, Alabama.
The ignorance that is Alabama and many other Deep South states knows no bounds, especially when it comes to Jesus.
Read this short summary of the latest Jesus story:
Operation Restore Our Community is kicking off there this week, giving misdemeanor offenders the choice between a year of Sunday church services or fines and jail, Raw Story reports. Pastors invented the program on the presupposition that crime is caused by “the erosion of family values and morals,” the town’s police chief says. “We have children raising children and parents not instilling values in young people.”
Alabama’s ACLU office calls the plan “blatantly unconstitutional” and is “considering options for response.” A Think Progress writer notes that even conservative Justice Antonin Scalia would condemn the plan for using the threat of penalty to coerce participation in religion. But one pastor rebuffed criticism, saying, “You show me somebody who falls in love with Jesus, and I’ll show you a person who won’t be a problem to society.”
One has to wonder what will be next. Will you soon have to join a church to get a driver’s license in Alabama? How about being forced to obtain a Certificate of Being Saved that you must show before you can apply for a job, or vote in Alabama or any one of these insane bible banging states?
What’s happening in America is frightening and I am convinced we just seeing the tip of this Jesus Jumping iceberg.
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They have it all wrong. I have on the best authority, meaning about 70 people accused of capital murder over the past 23 years, that God and Jesus are both in Jail and Prison because that is where they say they find Him or Them. Keeping them out of there is actually keeping them apart. I guess they left that part out in their seminary lessons.
As of right now jail or church is being postponed temporarily, till they can spin it in a good way I suppose.
http://blog.al.com/live/2011/09/jesus_jail_sentencing_alabama_delay.html
Aha! I bet you were shouting “OH GOD! OH GOD!”
Your conversion is complete. Yay Jesus!
You made my point Jess. If you murder somebody I’ll recommend the judge send you to church. A punishment worse than death for you.
Now watch it. Jesus is watching you.
I tell you what, if I ever get to murdering anyone at anytime, I will turn a gun on my own self and save the state the trouble and expense of imprisoning me. I’m a lover not a fighter, unless someone in my vicinity is being hurt, then I can be fierce. As far as Jesus watching me, well then.. hope he got some good tips last night, is all I can say on a family blog that won’t offend the delicate sensibilities of some readers 😉
But but, the tamborine bangers are not at all interested in having a theocracy here, they keep saying it so it must be true. Wonder if you take your attendance records from church from whenever, do you get time off for good behavior. What is going to happen the first time an “other” gets in front of this judge and says nope I am Wiccan, Jewish,Muslim, Hindu I won’t go to your Christian church. Having done community service in lieu of jail myself, had this been an option I would have told them to stick it.
“You show me somebody who falls in love with Jesus, and I’ll show you a person who won’t be a problem to society.”
Guessing here, that he has never heard of Scott Roeder or Eric Rudolph or any other person who loves Jesus but still goes out there and is a problem to society.
You know Mike, a year in church with an asshole preacher is far worse punishment than one weekend in jail or a 16 picking up trash.
Being a lawman I figured you’d be for this as a tough on crime measure.
You’ll think twice before breaking the law in this county.
You make a good point Joe, although even I would consider Jesus saturation to be cruel and unusual 🙂
Apparently the Mormans in your part of the world aren’t as bad as they are here MadMike.
They’re like determined gnats.