Be honest, Jennifer. If you had a choice of spending one hour a week in church or spending a few months in jail -- WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?
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I'd go to jail and wait on the ACLU to sue the pants off of them and get me a big old juicy cash settlement. Of course I could choose the church thing and scream and make rude comments all through the service but the money sounds better.
I don't know Best....I might take the church for an hour. It might be fun. I still have the right to free speech (hopefully) and I would not be a good little sheep.
I would be the same person I am right now and ask questions and object to their mindlessly following a book that was written by bronze age men to control the masses. Amazing that some are still so easily controlled today.
I wish that some one who is on the side of the Bay Minette officials would answer the question of what about the rights of the non-believers? Can they choose to go to Atheist meetings instead?
What if they are already regular church goers....nothing in their life would change at all.
Really does not matter what we would do given such a choice. The real issue is that it is unconstitutional and it will be stopped. If they really want to help these people get them professional help. Most people who are committing crimes that would warrant jail time, probably need some mental health care.
Religion should be left out of the equation. Then there would be no problem. They could give them a choice between some kind of treatment and jail....but religion or jail, that is illegal.