Some judicial sense...

According to this report, a district judge is offering worship service attendance as a sentencing option, rather than jail or rehab. It's a feasible option, especially with the success of a like-minded organization Prison Fellowship. Of course, the ACLU is all over it, claiming it violates the fictional "separation of church and state" (it's nowhere in the Constitution), but it's no worse than activist judges who can legislate who lives and who dies...