A federal court has decided that Christian Identity be recognized as an official religion in the Michigan state prison system. Lawyers for two inmates in the Michigan Department of Corrections successfully argued that their clients’ religious beliefs should be welcomed like other faith philosophies, despite organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center identifying them as hate groups that believe ontologically white people are God’s chosen people. The opinion rendered on Monday, June 26, was based on a case filed in 2013 by James Harrison Fox and Scott David Perreault. Their attorneys argued before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, Judge Richard Allen Griffin, and Judge Jane Branstetter Stranch in April 2023, the merits of their faith, Christian Identity being acknowledged as an actual religion, according to court documents obtained by Atlanta Black Star. A Kay County Detention Center supervisor is now facing prison time after a federal jury convicted him for excessive force and deliberately putting two inmates in harm’s way. (Getty Images/Charles O’Rear) Fox and Perreault said the prison officials would not let them worship or conduct bible study by themselves or have special dietary options that aligned with the […]
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