Rising Hegemon
the Alabama town of Bay Minette was poised to implement an unconstitutional plan that would effectively allow minor offenders to be sentenced to a year of church attendance, under penalty of imprisonment if they missed a Sunday service. In the wake of national press attention widely condemning the unconstitutional plan, the town will delay implementing the program in order to re-examine whether the plan is legal.
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As long as they can attend a mosque instead of a church if they choose, I'll go for it. Still probably unconstitutional, but worth it to see the snake-handlers shit themselves and hastily withdraw the proposal.
My favorite line from that story came from a Crooks & Liars post:
"Operation ROC resulted from meetings with church leaders. It was agreed by all the pastors that at the core of the crime problem was the erosion of family values and morals. - Bay Minette Police Chief Mike Rowland.
Oh, gee. A bunch of (we can only hope) divinity school grads have determined that “the erosion of (Republican) family values and morals” is the cause of their crime problem.
Whodathought?
Meanwhile, outside their parish doors:
26% of children live in families below the poverty line.
A whopping 52% of single female-headed households with children live below the poverty line.
For a family of four in Alabama, the poverty line is $22,000 a year, $11,000 for an individual.
Nearly 1 in 3 Alabamans made the equivalent of less than $33,075 for a household of four.
The numbers of people living in poverty have increased due to unemployment and the recession, and it’s middle class is shrinking.
Food banks and food assistance programs are overwhelmed, and applications for food stamps are through the roof.
They have a Governor who shouts only those who are Christians and "saved" like he is are his brothers and sisters.
(This would be the same Governor who depicted himself as a "Hospital Commander Vietnam War," when in fact he was a doctor at a military base in North Carolina.)
They have Alabama state Senator who calls black gambling hall customers "aborigines".
And they love blogger/racist, Mike Vanderboegh, who encouraged his readers to throw bricks at the windows of Democratic headquarters across the country. And they did.
They have a prominent anti-homosexual Republican attorney general who was caught with a gay man in his mouth. (Caught in bed by his wife! )
Only 10% of White Voters in Alabama Voted for a black President.
The Framing of Don Siegelman.
That disaster they call a prison system filled with crooks and cronies.
Yeah. The problem is they don’t love Big Butter Jesus.
A.J.
it wouldn't matter in tennessee i bet.
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