The Above Linkblogs Might Contain "Borrowed" links.
Linkblogs do not substantially contribute traffic to my blog that I can discover. They all go offsite, and are often accessed from my blog. It's possible to access them from the RSS according to my settings. Still, even if I were to get ads clicking on a linkblog from the RSS won't drive more people to my blog than otherwise because they leave my resources. (Note to self, do more posts, less LBs with sources I find). I explain because I sometimes borrow links from people at Twitter, and often forget who put them up. (To fellow Twitterers: If you have a link to your blog, I will point it there, but Twitter, being impermanent, cannot hold your link for people to discover from there. I only 'borrow' them to get news out to as many people as I can who might not have seen the reports and videos found by the smart people I follow at Twitter or find in search rooms.RSS Add-Me
8th Circuit Court (Iowa): Funding of Prison Ministry Unconstitutional
Re: AP report at Yahoo.com "Court: Prison program unconstitutional"
Please note, folks: This is the 8th Circuit, not the 9th Circuit. Iowa, not California. Don't start ragging on some imagined 'liberal court', conservatives.
Excerpt:
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the state of Iowa cannot fund an evangelical Christian prison ministry program because doing so advances or endorses religion, violating the Constitutional separation of church and state.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt's June 2006 ruling that a Prison Fellowship Ministries Inc. program at the Newton Correctional Facility was unconstitutional if paid for with taxpayer dollars and should be shut down.
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Prison Fellowship operates nine programs in six states: Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri and Texas. All are now privately funded through donations from individuals and foundations, he said.
The 24-hour a day, seven-day a week program at Newton immerses inmates in evangelical Christianity. Inmates who complete the 18-month program also get help after they're released from prison.
So those who adopted the actuality or pretense of evangelical Christianity got advantages from a ministry that was financed for a time by the state government of Iowa. Yeah, that should call for a constitutional guillotine on the program. Thwap!
Officials from both Iowa Corrections and the faith based, basted, and lambasted group say they'll figure out how to make the program work. Seems to me the flaw is deep and fatal.
The Iowa attorney general's office is considering an appeal.
It is a good thing that the ministry is now completely funded with donations and that the group will have to pay the money it got from the government back. I bet, though, that will be like one of those fines the government levies on WalMart. To be paid whennever.
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