State Mandated "Addiction Treatment"

Can government agencies direct nonbelievers to attend addiction treatment programs which rely on participants belief in a God or "Higher Power"?

• Appeals court says requirement to attend AA unconstitutional San Francisco Chronicle, Septemeber 8, 2007
• Inouye v. Nanamori U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Septemeber 7, 2007. Lists previous cases and concludes that there is "near-unanimous judicial invalidation of religious coercion in this and similiar contexts"
• ACLU sues over faith-based rehab: Catholic man forced into Pentecostal program, Detroit News, December 6, 2005
• Religion and Rehabilitation: The Requisition of God by the State Derek P. Apanovitch
• U.S Supreme Court refuses appeal of NY decision that AA is "religious".
• No more AA meetings for atheist, rules federal appeals court.
• Court decisions against mandated Alcoholics Anonymous participation.
• Alcoholics Anonymous theistic 12- steps.
• Forcing the Faith by Jame Kilpatrick.
• Settlement Halts Mandatory Religious Substance Abuse Program at CYA.

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