The Racist, Homophobic History of an Ala. Church Gunning for Its Own Police Force

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During a September football game against predominantly black Fairfield High School’s Tigers team, Briarwood Christian School students came on the field to a “Make America Great Again, Trump the Tigers” sign.

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Harry Reeder, the Briarwood Presbyterian pastor, is as problematic as the place of worship. He is a longtime advocate for the Confederate flag and speaks at ceremonies for neo-Confederate groups like the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Although religious organizations are prohibited from taking political stances, Reeder often shills for the Republican Party, as he did in his recent broadcast “Mike Pence Places a Hedge Around His Marriage.”

He also finds time to repudiate everything Obama, which he did April 6 in this broadcast from the church’s radio station: “Unmasking, Leaking, Lying, Obama’s Watergate?” A drug raid at the church’s high school in 2015 is still shrouded in mystery, and the church’s youth minister has been repeatedly arrested for impersonating a police officer.

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Of course.