While outright slavery and involuntary servitude were banned following the Civil War by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a clause permits them “as a punishment for crime.”
For Robert Boneberg, a ruling elder at Wyoming Presbyterian Church in Milburn, N.J., that loophole needs to be closed, so he initiated the process of sending an overture to the 226th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) asking the...
