Alabama senate votes to allow church to form own police force

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Alabama senate votes to allow church to form own police force

Associated Press
Wednesday 12 April 2017 00.02 BST

The Alabama Senate has voted to allow a church to form its own police force.

Lawmakers on Tuesday voted 24-4 to allow Briarwood Presbyterian church in Birmingham to establish a law enforcement department.

The church says it needs its own police officers to keep its school as well as its more than 4,000 person congregation safe.

Critics of the bill argue that a police department that reports to church officials could be used to cover up crimes.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/11/alabama-church-police-force-senate-vote

[enough]

1. Strange times. NT

[Island Blue]

2. What the actual fuck?

[liberal N proud]

3. How will this differ from sharia law that they so fear?

[TlalocW]

4. Hopefully, the "Satanists," will apply for the same thing

They've had a good track record of asking for the same thing Christians do or have with the result that Christians would rather give up their special treatment than let others have the same rights.

TlalocW

[Bretton Garcia]

5. The religion police? The Church Police?

Will they be allowed to arrest and torture and execute heretics?

Birmingham Alabama is - literally - famous for denying the rights of minorities. It is also the home of the central media bastion of Catholic conservatism, EWTN/EWRN.

Maybe they will have another Protestant vs. Catholic war, like the Thirty Years War, 1618-48.

I guess they just didn't like the sound of a "security department." It just didn't have that nice ring to it.

Looks awfully easy to legally strike down though. As an unconstitutional, illegal, establishment of a state religion.