Yesterday while waiting for make-up at the CNN studios, I picked up the front section of the New York Times. This story was top left hand corner. To summarize:

1. Groups who hate faith, are upset that faith is being used in prisons to reform criminals.
2. Said groups are claiming that in doing so from a Christian perspective that it is discriminatory against those inmates who are of different faith backgrounds.
3. All funding for such programs should be halted unless said programs remove the faith elements to their programs.
4. It is irrelevant as to how effective the reform programs are - they have to go...
5. The same principles should also be applied to youth homes, camps, organizations that are also using faith as part of the message...

There's about 4000 more words to the piece...

But sometimes you have to ask yourself, "what in the heck do they want to see happen?" Do the groups that are now suing actually WANT these programs to stop? Are they willing to deal with the baggage of non-reformed criminals that re-enter society? Are they oh-so-willing to prop up the "seperation of church and state" (which is NOT a Constitutional idea) that they are willing to sacrifice the good and safety of the culture? And my favorite...

SINCE WHEN DOES A CRIMINAL PAY CLOSE ENOUGH ATTENTION TO HIS FAITH BACKGROUND SO AS TO BE OFFENDED BY CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES?

Correct me if I'm wrong - but I think most criminals reject the moral tenets of whatever/if any faith they've had - thus why they are committing crimes.

Evidently the answer to these questions is - YES. We would prefer for society to become a much more dangerous place than to admit - that God's way just MIGHT straighten out a few bad apples.