“You look like Alabama to me”

“You look like Alabama to me”

by digby

Alabama has some experience with protests …

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A candlelight march protesting Alabama’s tough new immigration law drew enough people of different colors and faiths to fill nearly 11 city blocks Saturday evening at Linn Park in downtown Birmingham.

“You look like Alabama to me,” Scott Douglas, head of the interfaith antipoverty group Greater Birmingham Ministries, and one of the rally organizers, told the crowd. “This will be a peaceful, nonviolent candlelight prayer march that there may be justice in Alabama without exclusion.”

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Organizers said they were concerned the new law would make criminals out of members of the faith community who provide transportation to church services or events, or otherwise help immigrants who turn out to be in the country illegally.

“I give out juice and cookies as a ministry,” said Linda Hill, who is a chaplain for the ministry Grace By Day at Grace Episcopal Church in Woodlawn. “Am I supposed to ask for their identification before I can give them cookies? This law is hurtful and it’s mean.”

Some Christians are always asking WWJD and it’s usually an excuse to justify whatever it is they are already doing. But seriously, this one really is a no-brainer.

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