briarwood police force
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Alabama Quietly Passes Law Allowing Church With History of Racism and Homophobia to Form Its Own Police Force
In 2017, when Briarwood Presbyterian Church asked the overwhelmingly Republican legislature of Alabama to grant it the authority to form its own police force, politicians let the bill die amid public outcry over the separation of church and state, the congregation’s history of racism and its public homophobia. Two years later, the Associated Press reports…
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The Racist, Homophobic History of an Ala. Church Gunning for Its Own Police Force
While advocates of civil liberties decry a powerful Alabama politician’s effort to push through a bill that would give a lily-white suburban church its own police force, many are unaware of the church’s long history of troubling race relations. The Alabama Legislature is now considering Senate Bill 193. If passed, the law would give Briarwood…