sharia law is just one of the many evils of the scary brown people-unless christians do it, then thats cool and american
fuuucckkk
I will continue never going to Alabama.
Not missing much tbh.
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Please calm down, this is not anywhere near as bad as it seems.
This is a megachurch with a giant campus that hosts a K-12 school and a seminary. After Sandy Hook, they decided that it would be safer if they had campus police. If they get them, they’ll basically act like any other campus police. They’ll be fully trained, they’ll be restricted to the campus, etc.
The above link has basically no info; try this one. It’s from NBC, which leans left.
Come on guys, with fake news constantly circulating, you should know to Google anything that immediately provokes your sense of outrage. This may stretch the idea of “separation of church and state” to its breaking point, and you don’t have to like or accept it, but if it passes (it still needs to get past the House), it’s not going to signal an American theocracy.
Yeah right-wingers are arguing it’s not that bad because there are already university campus police, and there are even religious universities like BYU that have their own police. However, there is no non-creepy reason why a megachurch couldn’t just hire heavily armed security guards like all the other megachurches. Everybody in those places is packing, Jesus.
On the other hand, having their own pocket police force is a perfect shield for covering up sexual abuse, embezzlement, fraud and other crimes by church leaders.
Hopefully groups like Americans United for the Separation of Church and State can defeat this in a higher court.
Technically, depending on the state, heavily-armed security may not actually be able to do much of anything except notify the police. If security removes someone by picking them up and carrying them out because they refused to leave, if no injury occurred, is that assault?
Some means by which the megachurch could fund their own branch of the municipal police might destroy the political will to do this, but of course that has to be weighed against the police depending on them for additional funding. And of course, I imagine you don’t actually want security guards to have more power.