A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit involving a preacher booted from a rural Georgia jail after dozens of inmates wanted to avail themselves of his full-immersion baptisms in a horse trough.
The case raised issues including the preacher’s right to free speech, inmates’ religious liberty and a jailer’s admonition that baptisms were “not required for their salvation.”
Judge Michael Brown, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. (Courtesy photo)