In a meeting of the Alabama Liars Club, Bishops of the Episcopal, Methodist, and Catholic churches claimed:
“According to the lawsuit, “the bishops have reason to fear that administering of religious sacraments, which are central to the Christian faith, to known undocumented persons may be criminalized under this law.”
Strikes me as a bald-faced lie. Anyone have the details?
religious exemption does not allow a citizen serving jail time to leave for communion or other religious purposes.
Currently the First says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
If you read that to say that this means "No prayer in school" you might forget that "establishment of religion" extends WAY WAY WAY beyond the idea of "church". It gets into the issues of doctrine, revelation, dogma, church organization (ecclesiastical questions) and so on.
Since Congress has no authority, and the state legislatures have no authority to regulate the order of worship in a church, nor to dictate the Sacraments (or the taking of Communion), seems to me these church guys have no complaint.
Bet they agree with the "No prayer in school" definition though.
16 There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him:
17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,
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I'm sure all these pastors (in addition to being haughty looking bald faced liars) support abortion on demand and gay marriage.
Actually, as worded, yes the Alabama bill would infringe upon the sacrament of confession as well as the sacrament of the eucharist.
You're probably right - sounds like an attempt to throw another lawsuit out there and hope one of them sticks