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Cops directing traffic for churches. WTF?

I am actually pretty tolerant of religious priviledge and care less than I should about the goodies it gets but this morning on my way home, I see THREE cops cars out there and a cop stopping traffic so 3 people could cross the road.

I've seen this before when there was a festival at the greek church and have no issue because I consider it a public event and if churches paid taxes I also wouldn't care but for some reason this really irked the shit out of me.

Am I blinded by my irritation as to WHY this is acceptable?

#religious #Privilege #church #taxes #WTF
Lucy_Fehr 8 Apr 15
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They normally hire off duty police to man these locations and it provides the police with a little additional income. I am ok with this.

I would be fine with that as well but they are in uniform and using the cruisers which is city property
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You're not blinded. It happens down here to. There are two mega churches in my vicinityand both use cops to direct traffic on Sundays. I guess they're keeping the public safe but paying for that "privilege" would make more sense. Imo

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I know of a few churches down here that cops do this for. But I know that most of them pay for the cops to direct the traffic

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