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trev

(1,480 posts) Sat Jun 22, 2019, 05:04 PM Jun 2019

Alabama church gets its own police force.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/21/1866322/-Alabama-governor-signs-law-allowing-church-to-have-its-own-police-force?detail=emaildkre

I guess giving churches their own armies is next....

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Alabama church gets its own police force. (Original Post) trev Jun 2019 OP

Hey, the Catholics and the Protestants had wars between them for 400 years here DFW Jun 2019 #1

So are we to assume Ohiogal Jun 2019 #2

Boy, am I naive. When I read the titile of this post, I thought.... EarnestPutz Jun 2019 #3

I see nothing in this article regarding rationale. Progressive Jones Jun 2019 #4

Separation of church and state? Tech Jun 2019 #5

Briarwood of course! If you want to see where they are location on Google Earth/Street.. JustFiveMoreMinutes Jun 2019 #6

DFW

(54,338 posts)

1. Hey, the Catholics and the Protestants had wars between them for 400 years here

Reply to trev (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2019, 05:13 PM

Jun 2019

America is only catching up.....

Ohiogal

(31,969 posts)

2. So are we to assume

Reply to trev (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2019, 05:15 PM

Jun 2019

Mosques in Alabama have the same right to do this as well?

EarnestPutz

(2,119 posts)

3. Boy, am I naive. When I read the titile of this post, I thought....

Reply to trev (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2019, 05:31 PM

Jun 2019

...it would be a black church that had been threatened by their white Christian "brethren" from up the street. What could I have been thinking. The historical perspective about this particular flavor of presbyterians, going back to the Civil War, is no surprise. Just upscale southern baptists I guess.