PER CURIAM.
This cause is before us on appeal from an order adjudicating appellant delinquent. At issue is the validity of the requirement, as a condition of community control, that appellant "get with the pastor" of his mother's church and enroll in any and all of the church's youth programs.
Requiring a probationer or community controllee to submit to a course of religious instruction contravenes the First Amendment. Owens v. Kelley,
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