Atheist jailed for denying ‘higher power’ in Calif. drug rehab gets $2M

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63. Reminds me of a friend who got a DUI some years back.

The court said he had to go to a company for evaluation. They told him he had to go to a different company for counseling. That company said he had to go to an AA meeting every week, "the county" required it. He never was able to figure out who in "the county" required it, as it apparently wasn't a court requirement. Most of it seemed like a scam, the companies pay the state every year to be certified & the state keeps sending them customers. Nice business arrangement.

He said the AA meetings started with a prayer, ended with the lord's prayer, & talked about god the whole meeting. He said there was more talk of god than in a church service. The fact that the state (the government) required him to attend such religious meetings seemed like a clear violation of separation of church & state.