State Rep. Lynn Greer, a Republican from Rogersville, filed a bill this month in the Alabama Legislature called the Alabama Church Protection Act. It was previously introduced in the State House of Representatives in 2018.

It would add churches to the 2006 Stand Your Ground law, allowing churchgoers to defend themselves with guns at church.

“I think it’s a good idea,” said Birmingham attorney Eric Johnston, president of the Southeast Law Institute, who specializes in church-state issues. “Small churches don’t have the budgets to have a policeman.”

The bill proposes that church members can use deadly force to defend themselves, and would be presumed justified if they believe someone is about to harm people in attendance at a church.

“This bill would provide that a person is not criminally liable for using physical force, including deadly force, in self-defense or in the defense of another person on the premises of a church under certain conditions,” the bill says.

Members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America opposed the bill in a public hearing last year.

https://www.al.com/news/2019/03/guns-in-church-alabama-bill-resurfaces.html

I'm confused. SYG already applies to churches. Is this just make some folks feel good, buy some votes deal?

BamaJr is on the church security team.

maybe i am wrong here but i don't see the need for this bill. doesn't state law already cover you for use of deadly force to protect life anywhere.

Farley and Treadway block Constitutional Carry in the house of representatives from coming out of committee for a floor vote.

This will be the fourth year in a row iirc. Passes in the senate each year, stalls in the house with those two.

will say it again... treadway is a lying shitbird.

I'm not seeing that we need another bill to "reinforce" what's already GTG.
How about just take the state out of the "rights enforcement" business?

Every "common sense" bill has a poison pill, or a backdoor for such.