Alabama Senate Votes to Give Church Its Own Armed Police Force

Oi vey.

Alabama Senate Votes to Give Church Its Own Armed Police Force

Holy Shit! Alabama is really nuts.

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"We've got over 30,000 events a year that take place at Briarwood, going on all day, all night, at the school, at the church, at the seminary," Briarwood attorney Eric Johnston, who wrote much of the language in the bill, told AL.com. "We have to hire policemen all the time. It would be so much easier to have someone on staff."

Thirty thousand events per year, really?  That's better than 82 events per day, every day.  Holy Jesus Fuck.

The local police must depend on Briarwood for 80% of its income.

Briarwood wrote:

We teach students to think, live, and love based on what the Bible teaches. This is a biblical worldview. Our mission is to help our students develop a biblical worldview from the arts to zoology and everything in between. For our students and staff, the Bible is a lamp to their feet and a light to their life’s path (Psalm 119:105) as they learn “to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (II Cor. 10:5) so that in everything, “Christ might be preeminent.” (Col. 1:18)

Doesnt the bible teach against armed police?  "Turn the other cheek" and all that?

And why do the parishioners need so much police presence, praytell?

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Briarwood administrators have admitted that the megachurch hasn’t been targeted by threats or violence