In June, after the roof of the just-built Cedar Grove Methodist Church near Thorsby, Ala., collapsed (with no one inside), church officials revealed that they had never sought building permits, based on Pastor Jeff Carroll’s assumption that “separation of church and state” meant that his church was none of the government’s business. Carroll, whose day job is as a home builder, said volunteers designed and then built the church, but agreed to get a permit for the re-building. [Birmingham News, 6-25-06] (HT: Orin Kerr)
2 Responses to “The crumbling roof of separation of church and state.”
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Jeremy
Sounds to me like a comp out for insurance purposes, sure this entire group of people could not have possibly been this ignorant. Maybe he was trying to make a statement of the consitutional law, if so he failed and looked stupid doing so. I guess the good part about the whole thing is they really can give thanks to God for the miracle that no one got hurt. There is a bright light in every dark tunnel…lol
Randy
Somebody is planning something…scandalous