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| Prison church comes under fire as a fraud |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/28/2005 |
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Iowa is seeking to overturn a 1974 federal court ruling that gave formal religious status to a prison group that officials say is nothing more than a front for a white-supremacist group. Iowa attorneys have filed court papers seeking to revisit the whole notion of whether the Church of the New Song deserves constitutional protection as a religion. State lawyers, citing evidence that has not yet been made public, contend that the prison religion is a security threat and that regular meetings have been used to plan bad acts, including assaults. Inmates who are members of the group insist that they have been singled out for their beliefs and put into high-security lock-down in the state prison at Fort Madison solely because of the church. The Church was formed in the 1970's by an inmate in the federal prison system. At one time the Church claimed that porterhouse steaks were essential to the practice of their theology. |
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