Atheists give up on lawsuit; Christian group can continue helping newly released prisoners

Let's take note: Who wants to help Florida's newly released prisoners to integrate themselves back into society, get a place to live, be fed and find jobs? A Christian group called Prisoners of Christ and Lamb of God Ministries. And the effort has resulted in a significantly lower prison return rate for participants in the program. Who wants to stop this from happening? Atheists. Or they did until they lost in court, at which point they blessedly gave up the effort, or more likely, found something even more ridiculous to complain about. From the Daily Signal's Melody Wood:

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The Blaine Amendment is an absurd contortion of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, which says government shall make no law respecting establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof. It says nothing about preventing religious groups from operating under the same rules as everyone else, but that's what the secular left wants. They want to turn the Establishment Clause into government-sanctioned hostility toward religion, especially when it comes to public funding of any sort of ministry. Atheists like the Center for Inquiry will claim their objection is not to helping the prisoners, but to the possibility that they might be "proselytized" at taxpayer expense. The practical effect of their effort, though, would be that prisoners do not get help, all because it so bothers the sensibilities of our atheist friends that some of them might be attracted to the love of Christ as a result of Christ's people having helped them. By the way, I'd really like to encourage any Christian organization that wants to help people to consider doing so as part of a for-profit model. I know that's a different kind of challenge but when you can generate your own operating capital and you pay taxes, then you don't leave yourself vulnerable to horrible lawsuits like this that try to take away your funding. I know that's a very different way of thinking for Christian organizaitons, but given the nature of the world today it's something that needs to be considered. None of that, however, takes away from the worthiness of this ministry. Here's a video produced by Heritage that explains more about the program atheists tried to kill, and really tells you everything you need to know about those who reach out to help others - and those who make it their twisted life's mission to try to stop this from happening.

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