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Last week the immigration issue kept creeping back into the conversations on here. Well let’s have at it.
Church leaders in Alabama are suing the state over their new bundle of anti-immigration laws. Why? The churches say that the laws prevent them from doing what churches do–minister to the poor. Some religions leaders say, as the law stands, that they could be arrested for feeding an immigrant or helping in times of sickness. In other words, they feel that the Alabama government in interfering with the separation of church and state.
Alabama has legislated new laws based on the F.A.I.R. model, similar to those first passed in the July 2007 Resolution here in PWC. These might even be more draconian.
Meanwhile, in Hoover Alabama, tea party forces support the new law:
