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An Alabama pastor whose residential ministry for sex offender mugs stanley s was shut down by a new law, has been allowed by a federal judge to proceed with his religious liberty lawsuit against the state.Pastor Ricky Martin of the Triumph church in rural Clanton says Alabama targeted his ministry when it passed a law that only applied to one county, and only shut down hi termo stanley s program. We was trying our best to provide the housing for them,@said Martin.@They was going to church, they was serving the lord, they had been saved, of course. Alabama has some of the most restrictive laws in the nation that govern where sex offenders can live. The state requires offenders stanley cup@to have an approved address before they can leave prison. Sex offenders in Alabama are also prohibited from living within 2,000 feet from any school, college or daycare. If an offender does not supply law enforcement with an approved address by the time he or she is eligible for release, the offender is remanded to the custody of the local sheriff. The law has no exception for mental illness or disability.Martin said he ministered to sex offenders in prison, and began the transitional housing program behind his church after many men were unable to leave jail when their sentences were completed.The pastor had five trailers set up behind the church, about 300ft from each other, and that, at most, he had about a dozen men living in the trailers at any one time. Just 8,700 residents live in Clanton, a town smack in the middle of the s
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