This story is almost too bizarre to believe, but it’s apparently true. A judge in Smith County, Texas, apparently is ordering people charged with minor crimes to write Bible verses and get married as conditions of getting probation instead of jail time. I don’t see how that can possibly be constitutional, or why Texas judicial authorities have allowed this to continue. Read the story here and here and here.
Photo: Smith County, Texas, Judge Randall Rogers has his own unique ideas about how to rehabilitate minor criminal offenders. They include writing Bible verses and being forced into court-ordered marriages.