Alabama Town Orders Small Time Offenders To Attend Church — Or It Will Throw Them In Jail | ThinkProgress

September 26, 2011 Alabama Town Orders Small Time Offenders To Attend Church — Or It Will Throw Them In Jail | ThinkProgress

This program isn’t just unconstitutional, it is unconstitutional even under conservative Justice Antonin Scalia’s vision of the Constitution’s Establishment Clause. In his dissenting opinion in Lee v. Weisman, Scalia wrote that the state may not us the “threat of penalty” to “coerce anyone to support or participate in religion or its exercise.” Telling someone — even someone convicted of a crime — that they must participate in a religious service or go to jail clearly fails Justice Scalia’s test.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/09/26/328180/go-to-church-or-go-to-jail/

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