Griper Blade: Colson Fights Terrorism

Recently, I wrote about Watergate figure Charles Colson. At that time, Colson was all bent out of shape over criticism of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and James Dobson's pretty much identical stands on stem cell research. Colson had written an article titled, "Who Is Funding Attacks on Christians?" -- as if all christians had the same position as the nutjobs on the religious right.

If mere criticism of religious crazies was enough to get Colson's irish up, imagine what this news might've done to him:

Working for Change:

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In June, however, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pratt, chief judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, handed Colson's operation a setback. Judge Pratt ruled in favor of a suit filed by Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Americans United) which claimed that IFI's [InnerChange Freedom Initiative ] operation at Iowa's Newton Correctional Facility violated the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution.

Judge Pratt ordered an end to the program within 60 days, and also ordered InnerChange to reimburse more than $1.5 million to the state of Iowa.

That sixty days has just flown by and now Chuck, having no other defense for a 'ministry' that basically forces prisoners to accept Christianity has a novel and desperate 11th hour defense of his Prison Fellowship Ministries -- it fights terrorism.

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