Posted on 02/20/2017 4:13:09 PM PST by PAR35
Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Vestavia Hills is trying to establish its own police force.
The move requires approval from state lawmakers. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Arnold Mooney (R-Shelby County) cleared its first major hurdle Wednesday. The House Public Safety Committee gave its OK.
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Is apostasy a Crime there?
Megachurch ping? There aren’t many congregations around with their own police departments, but if the Vatican can have their Swiss guards, I guess the Presbyterians need to have an offsetting force.
Alabama ping.
What is going on in or around this church that requires a police force? The link seems sketchy on details.
It was a pretty nice area when they moved there in the 1980s, as I recall. There has to be something missing from that story.
Multiple jurisdictions, two municipalities and unincorporated county. The affiliated high school is in the neighboring county.
Nothing sketchy, believe me. Solid church.
Ah, thank you. That makes more sense.
The biggest issue is that they want to keep the drug busts at their school off the record and under the radar.
I realized that I didn’t make much sense. All those jurisdictions meet on the very large campus.
This church is where the PCA began. Very conservative.
No, what you said at first made sense to me, mostly because we have some similar issues in Northern Alabama. I just had not seen a church involved like this before.
Not to be rude, but that’s quite an accusation. Do you have anything to back that up?
Care to tell us which state Briarwood is in?
Alabama. This church is in a suburb of Birmingham.
“Drug bust at Briarwood Christian High School shrouded in secrecy”
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/04/drug_bust_at_briarwood_christi.html
The worst part was that when they knew the drug thing was going on, they did not report it to law enforcement but decided to “investigate” it themselves.
The police later became involved.
Thanks for filling in the missing link. Although it sounds like local law enforcement was pretty ‘tame’.
In the Dallas, they call the area where folks are above the law ‘The Bubble’, and the two enclave communities have their own police departments to make sure the kids get home safe and the parents don’t have to pick them up at the Dallas jail in the middle of the night. Sounds like Briarwood wants to go a step up from that.
I did mention Birminham (Birmingham) in my first post. The Religion Forum doesn’t let you put states in the ‘Topics’, but I see someone was nice enough to add it to the Keywords.
The wealthiest of the wealthiest in Bham, (who don’t attend Mountain Brook High School or John Carroll) all go to Briarwood.
Not as much money as Dallas, but they carry a big stick in their neighborhood.
on site jail?
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