They're opening drug rehabilitation centers, taking part in large anti-drug rallies, reaching into their pocketbooks to help pay for detoxification, starting neighborhood watch programs, monitoring drug cases from arraignment to sentencing in local courts, and working one-on-one with recovering addicts to encourage them to stay drug-free.

Besides drug rehabilitation, the Christian Appalachian Project will provide job training for addicts, teach parenting skills, and even teach them to read and write if necessary. The organization also is encouraging churches to adopt recovering addicts after they complete rehabilitation to offer support and encouragement to stay off drugs. "We want to give them a new lease on life," he said.

I'm in favor of this. It's not the Government, so there's no First Amendment problem with separation of church and state. The threat of jail is not hanging directly over anyone's head. While the article is silent on how much religious instruction in provided to the participants, it doesn't sound as if they'd try to "reform" an atheist or convert a Jewish person, Buddhist or other non-Christian. In fact, if synagogues and other non-Christian religious and spriritual foundations would get on the bandwagon, so people had a choice of which program to participate in, this could be an even bigger win all around. [link via U.S. Marijuana Party blog.]