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Stuckinthebush

(11,035 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 06:59 AM Apr 2015

Briarwood Presbyterian Church (PCA) and school wants its own police force

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/04/briarwood_presbyterian_church.html#incart_river

Briarwood Presbyterian Church and school wants its own police department.

Sworn. Professional. Serious. I'm serious.

A bill advertised by the Alabama Messenger – fulfilling the requirement of all bills before they can be introduced in the Legislature – would allow Briarwood to "appoint and employ one or more persons to act as police officers to protect the safety and integrity of the church and its ministries."

Those persons would be "charged with all of the duties and invested with all the powers of law enforcement in this state."

"The authority of any police officer appointed and employed pursuant to this section shall be restricted to the campuses and properties of Briarwood Presbyterian Church," it says.

Meaning that if passed, churchgoers or students or visitors anyone who sets foot on the grounds of Briarwood's Church or its school properties could be arrested by an officer of a private, non-profit company – a church to boot – that is appointed and hired by people who are not chosen at the ballot box.



What could possibly go wrong?

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Briarwood Presbyterian Church (PCA) and school wants its own police force (Original Post) Stuckinthebush Apr 2015 OP
All the power, none of the responsibility. trotsky Apr 2015 #1
There's a dead bishop on the landing. bvf Apr 2015 #2
Bob Jones University tried something similar once... onager Apr 2015 #3
Wow Stuckinthebush Apr 2015 #4
Hey (ex) Homie! Ever run into their street preachers? onager Apr 2015 #9
BJU Lordquinton Apr 2015 #8
*snicker* beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #10
Don't be late for services. Downwinder Apr 2015 #5
Why do visions of 'sharia police' come to my mind. woodsprite Apr 2015 #6
Would they have their own jail too? beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #7

onager

(9,356 posts)
3. Bob Jones University tried something similar once...
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 07:35 AM
Apr 2015

But BJU has always had a private security force. On slow days, cruising around Greenville SC (which was most days in Greenville), sometimes we would pull into the front gate of BJU and drive slowly thru the campus.

The campus cops would always follow us in one of their cars, until we exited thru the back gate. No doubt making sure the campus wasn't being invaded by terrorists, atheists, Jews, Catholics, gays or Uppity Negroes.

Anyway, Bob Jones U. once asked the South Carolina National Guard if it could pick up some surplus .50-caliber machine guns.

This request went to the state Attorney General, who probably had a WTF moment. He asked why a small Bible school needed armor-piercing heavy machine guns.

The response: "To protect our white female students."

Amazingly, that request was denied.

Stuckinthebush

(11,035 posts)
4. Wow
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 07:39 AM
Apr 2015

When your request for big guns and big ammo is denied in South Carolina then you KNOW that you have crossed a line somewhere.

I went to a small college in SC near Greenville. We were always amazed at the stories we'd hear from BJU about how women walked on one side and men on the other. Quite a wackadoodle place.

onager

(9,356 posts)
9. Hey (ex) Homie! Ever run into their street preachers?
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 04:00 PM
Apr 2015

At one time, part of the seminary courses (I guess) at BJU required street preaching. I'm not sure if they still do, but probably.

So every spring, those shouting, screaming fools hit the streets in Greenville and all the surrounding towns like Anderson. You're just trying to walk down the street, and get accosted by some bellowing Jesus-Jumper screaming in your face about going to Hell.

Yeah, their dating procedures were epic. I heard that dating a BJ girl (heh!) meant meeting her in the lobby of the Women's Dorm. You could sit there and talk to her, while being chaperoned by one of the older women who worked as Monitors in the dorm. That woman's job was to make sure you didn't actually touch each other or anything. And that was your dream date!

Even my devout Xian relatives make fun of Bob Jones. They call it "Jesus Tech."

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
7. Would they have their own jail too?
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 02:59 PM
Apr 2015

Maybe in the basement, with tools they could use to uh coerce confessions out of perps?

Someplace for them to lie down:




Sure, why not?

It worked out so well in the past.

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