Alabama Quietly Passes Law Allowing Church With History of Racism and Homophobia to Form Its Own Police Force
by Michael Harriot from on (#4HKME)
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.