This is just downright weird:
Civil rights and religious freedom groups are criticizing the Rappahannock Regional Jail in northern Virginia, charging that the jail illegally censored the letters a Christian mother sent to her jailed son for being “too religious.” Jail authorities cut out so many Bible passages that her letters resembled “Swiss cheese,” the groups said.
The letters of inmate mother Anna Williams were stamped for censorship with the words “Religious Material from Home,” a press release from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty reports. On at least one occasion, all that was left of a three-page letter was its salutation, its first paragraph, and its signature “Love, Mom.”
There hasn’t, as far as I know, been a response to this, nor an explanation as to just why the censorship happened. It is legitimate to censor inmate’s mail, but such censorship is supposed to extend only to things affecting prison security (so, if you send a blueprint of the prison which might help a prisoner escape, that probably wouldn’t make it past the censor) – its not legitimate to censor religious material.
There seems to be a growing problem in official circles about religion – especially the Christian religion. Leftist propaganda has made out that religion, in itself, is a problem and thus has to be carefully watched. The result of this paranoia is such things as this censorship – and other efforts to expunge religious expression. We do need to get to the bottom of this and, in the long run, pass laws enforcing the Constitution’s “free exercise” clause.
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