Monday, December 3, 2012

Would you rather go to church or jail?

That's a question one character asks another in the film "Fried Green Tomatoes."

http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=CiGg0sBlMbA&feature=mv_sr

When my daughter, then just a tyke, heard that question, her unhesitating reply was "Jail."  My wife and I knew then that our efforts to entice our kids into the Episcopal Church were failing.

Now a judge has caused fact to once again emulate fiction by giving this choice to a drunk driver:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/11/texas_judge_sentences_a_teenage_drunk_driver_to_church_attendance.html

If the lad fails to follow through with the church-going, his  next stop will be prison.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/us/oklahoma-judges-sentencing-of-youth-to-church-stirs-criticism.html


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