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DATE: TUESDAY, November 22, 1994                   TAG: 9411230062
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: C4/INTL   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NEW ORLEANS                                 LENGTH: Short

ACLU SUES JUDGE FOR CHURCH PENALTY

The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the sentence handed to a man accused of drunken driving, saying the punishment was a violation of the separation of church and state.

Thomas P. Quirk, Lake Charles City Court judge, ordered Gregory Thompson to attend church once a week for a year on his no-contest plea in 1993.

``I'm not going to stop until the courts tell me I've got to,'' Quirk said.

- Associated Press