Alabama Churches Oppose Anti-Immigrant Law

From Fox News Latino:

The movement against Alabama’s harsh crackdown on undocumented immigrants is being led, in some respects, by the church.

The latest example was Sunday in Huntsville, where a few hundred people gathered in a downtown park for an interfaith prayer rally to protest the law.

Many participants wore white and carried candles; some pastors wore clerical garb.

The mobilization of the church, for some, is a chance for Bible Belt redemption.

During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and `60s, many state churches didn’t join the fight to end Jim Crow laws and racial segregation. Some cross-burning Ku Klux Klan members took off their hoods and sat in the pews with everyone else on Sunday mornings, and relatively few white congregations actively opposed segregation. Some black churches were hesitant to get involved for fear of a white backlash. Read more ….

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