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23 July, 2004
23 July 2004Meanwhile, in Michigan, the Inner City Christian Outreach Residential Program, part of a local Pentecostal ministry contracted by Genessee County to run drug rehabilitation programs, has been accused by a former patient of trying to convert him from Catholicism to the Pentecostal faith. Joseph Hanas says he was forced to read and memorize tenets of the church, and that when he dropped out of the program because of the proselytizing, he was punished by the court. Read more of Amanda Luker's report in The New Standard. Update: Richard Bartholomew of Bartholomew's Notes on Religion investigates further: "Hanas had asked the trial judge, Genesee Circuit Judge Robert M. Ransom, for transfer to a secular program, to which Ransom responded by sending him to prison and boot camp. Why? One snippet in The New Standard story not in the ACLU papers notes that Judge Ransom is 'also an Inner City Christian leader,' although I was unable to find any other reference for this."
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