Plenty. Last month, Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama, signed a bill into law giving a specific church the right to have their very own police force. The church is Briarwood Presbyterian Church, one that has a history of racism and bigotry. The law, in summary …
Relating to law enforcement; to amend Section 16-22-1, Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the president or chief executive officer of Madison Academy and Briarwood Presbyterian Church and its integrated auxiliary Briarwood Christian School to appoint and employ one or more suitable persons to act as police officers to protect the property of the school or academy.
Did these people ever hear of the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution? I know it’s Alabama, and they are just nuts enough to like a doofus like Roy Moore, but still … last I looked, Alabama was still one of the 50 states comprising the United States. Thus, they fall under the law as set forth by the Constitution and as upheld by the Courts.
The Establishment Clause begins quite simply …
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …
What … WHAT is so hard to understand about that? That the Alabama State Legislature AND the Governor of the State are all so uneducated about the law is simply astounding!
The law is scheduled to go into effect in the fall, but I’m thinking that if there are any judges in Alabama with more sense than the legislature has, it will never see the light of day. What could possibly go wrong with racist white people toting guns and given a badge, told to protect those good white Christians, eh? Remember George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin? Need I say more?
Filosofa's Word 
Oooh religious militas that always works well.
No, no guys.
‘Onwards Christian Soldiers’ relates to affirmations of faith not to tool up, lock and load…..oh never mind, might as well try and explain why you should not take an English translation of The Old Testament books as the literal definitive version.
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I do hope this is quickly struck down by the courts, else we will start seeing these laws popping up all over the country, and pretty soon we’ll have to fear going within a mile of a church anywhere! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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Don’t recall any mention in the New Testament of Christ having a police force
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Sigh. Tell that to the evangelicals. If they had guns back in those days, can you imagine how much differently things might have turned out?
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This is where I get to play the religion card on them…
‘This is not what Christ wanted….Remember Him being tempted by The Devil in the deserts’…..
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God protect us (that’s a prayer by the way)
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You do that so well!!! 😊
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Us sneaky Catholics.
(Of course we are all acting on orders from the Vatican) 😉
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But of course! 😉
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Which begs the question… why would a church ever need it’s own police force??? Well in a way we are reverting back to the dark ages, back then the Vatican had it’s own military to lead crusades, ie loot and pillage neighboring states. Oh well, more sighs…..
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Whoa, that’s dangerous!
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In the extreme! This is becoming a frightening place to live. 😦
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It sounds like it’s teetering.
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Very much so. If I had the wherewithal, I would be out of here.
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Time to end the union and secede?
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The union is well on its way to becoming a tin pot dictatorship, I fear. Given the way our government is treating migrants, and especially the children, there is nothing to be proud of here.
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I think they got that from us.
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Who is going to run their court system, church elders? That would turn into a lynch mob. Guilty before you could prove yourself innocent. Hung on the cross, and then burn the cross. Biblical law tenderized with racist vitriol (Thanks, Jill.) What could be a better combination? They gotta be crazy!
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It is my sincere hope that the courts laugh this law off the continent! I don’t even want to think about what’s next … it is becoming a scary place here. Sigh. They are crazy … they think their bigoted beliefs should be shared by everyone … by force if necessary. If the law is allowed to take effect, what to you bet there will be a killing … of a black man … by the end of the year?
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By Indepependence Day, did you say? All it will take is one wrong look.
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Well, the new ‘law’ isn’t set to take place until August, at the earliest, so I figure nothing much can happen ’til then. But yeah, all it will take is the wrong look, or the perception of a look. Sigh. Let us hope the Courts put a stop to the madness, but I’m not holding my breath.
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No jumping to conclusions, Jill. The world could be dead by then. Trump didn’t want to bomb 150 Iranians, but he is willing to carpet-bomb millions. Tell me this makes sense.
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In today’s world, there is not much that makes sense, particularly if it has the word “trump” in it.
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Too true.
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I don’t see how they can legally do this. But then no one in Federal courts stand up to them and the state must be brimming with trump racists supporters. Why would any normal person want to go to Alabama anyway?
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I am almost certain the courts will strike this one down, but … it is Alabama. Sigh. You couldn’t pay me money to go to either Alabama or Mississippi!
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You couldn’t make this up. Maybe we might be allowed to set are own country up – a most sensible one. Nut we might need a wall to keep the nutters out.
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As they say, “Truth is stranger than fiction”. Sigh. I’m all for setting up our own country … we need to figure out how to keep the nutters from popping up from within, too.
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It’s time the Christians had their army😀
Look at this
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Please tell me you are being sarcastic. If you are being sarcasmic I would hate to look into you mind.
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He is definitely being sarcastic … he’s very much like you and I in his thinking.
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Good. Sarcasm is so easy to miss on the written page. There is no body language to notify a reader.
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I think that’s why they came up with the emoticons, but even those can send the wrong message sometimes.
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Especially when one has no idea what the emoticons mean. On a tablet they are so small I cannot see facial expressions. I grope blindly in the land of no light.
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How poetic … how dramatic! 😉 (That was a winking face, in case you couldn’t discern it.
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Looks like a black eye to me, lol.
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If they already have a police force, why stop there? Army seems to me to be the next logical step
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El dumbpo seems to already have an army. Another one might just get in his way. A right wing police force he can use. They would not have to follow the laws. That would be a wet dream come true for him.
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Well that’s what Hitler did
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Scary stuff!
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Very!
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I’m half inclined to say, “Let’s give them their own country … far, far away from here!” The hate, the vitriol, the intolerance is astounding, and not in any good way! Good to see you again, Makagutu!
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They may want the whole country
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It seems that is exactly what they want!
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And if they are not stopped, there will be no country
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This is true. Some days I think there already isn’t.
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At least it is just some days.
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Yes, probably only 3 out of 4 days. 😉
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I saw this. This is what I mean but mental illness. It can be nothing else.
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Reblogged without comment, still scraping my brain off the wall!
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I know what you mean. Sigh.
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Reblogged this on notestoponder.
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Thank you for sharing!
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Next, they’ll be drawing maps with the Mason Dixon line showing again and voting for their own president. Crazy.
— Suzanne
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On my more frustrated days, I’m inclined to wish them good riddance. if this nation needs a wall, perhaps it is along the Mason-Dixon line. Sigh.
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Let me move north or west first! I don’t want to live with these people!
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Okay … come on up, and bring Gronda, Horty, Larry, Don, and the rest of the Florida gang with you!
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If only
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Maybe that could work except there are a lot of Damn Yankees down there these days. My son and his family are surrounded by Trump voters. He was raised and still lives and works deep in enemy territory. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Yes, unlike the era of the Civil War, there are really no geographic boundaries today. Racism and other forms of bigotry are more prevalent in the south, but it exists everywhere. Unless one lives on the west coast or the northeast, one is certain to be amidst a bunch of trumpians. Sigh.
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That doesn’t bode well. We are entering into a ‘Nanny State’ everywhere these days. Freedoms are denied, and it is getting worse. 😕
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One man’s freedom, or the freedom of such a small group, shouldn’t take precedence over the freedom of the rest of the people, and that is what this is. Sigh.
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