ADF Asks U.S. Supreme Court . . . Must Rescue Missions Choose Either Their Faith Or Accepting Parolees?
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the former director of the Denver Rescue Mission filed a petition Friday, December 3 with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to take his case and reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit that threatens to force religious rescue missions to choose between adhering to their faith and offering help to parolees.Jim Carmack, while director of the Mission, accepted a parolee, Mark Janny, to be a resident as a favor to a parole officer because Janny needed a residence and had no other place to stay. The Mission’s free programs are designed to change lives in the name of Christ by sharing the Gospel and meeting…Continue Reading