[Buddha-l] Buddhism and AA

[jkirk]

Bet he was converted while serving his sentence in prison. 
It might be interesting to see statistics on the percentage of pre-prison
Buddhists in jail or prison in, say, 2006. I suspect it would be very low.

I wonder if an atheist could also sue if ordered to attend AA? Providing he
declares that atheism is his religion.

Joanna
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Some of you may have seen an article about a US federal court decision
involving a Buddhist who, when released from prison, was ordered by his
parole office to join Alcoholics Anonymous. The Buddhist sued, claiming that
AA is a religious organization and that being ordered to attend meetings
there violated his constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of
religion. 
He won his case.

Any comments?

--
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
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