Alabama Megachurch To Have Its Own Police Force

[Secular Elf]

We are definitely going in the wrong direction:

...when the Briarwood Presbyterian Church, a megachurch in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, asked for special permission to create our nation’s first ever church-run police force, it sailed right through Alabama’s GOP-dominated Senate on Tuesday. It’s expected that the bill will pass the Republican-controlled House and become law, empowering the Briarwood Church to hire actual police officers in the name of the church.
The Briarwood Church police officers would be required to be certified by the Alabama Peace Officer Training Commission. Consequently, they will be armed and fully empowered as police officers in Alabama, although church officials explained that its “officers would be restricted to the church’s campuses and be able to respond to emergency situations while coordinating with local authorities.” No word yet if the church’s police officers would wear large crosses on their uniforms that conjure up Christian crusaders, but since they are church employees that could be part of the uniform.

Source: The Daily Beast--"In Alabama, A Church Is Getting Its Own Police Force  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...force.html

If one Conservative Dominionist church can have its own police force, why not all of them?

Do any of my secular brothers and sisters still think that we do not need our own militias to counter a theocratic government dictatorship?  We better start discussing this more seriously.  We better take the threats to us more seriously.