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cbayer

(146,218 posts) Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:31 AM Jun 2014

11 Bizarre Church Laws That Could Send You To Jail

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/01/weird-church-laws_n_5398732.html

The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz

Posted: 06/01/2014 8:11 am EDT Updated: 06/01/2014 8:59 am EDT

Some states take their religious services very seriously. Breaking these laws could send you straight from the chapel to the cooler for something as simple as a sneeze. Though these appear to all still be on the books, a lawyer probably wouldn't have a prayer of successfully prosecuting anyone arrested for eating peanuts in church. At least, we hope not...

Courtesy of DumbLaws.com, here are eleven strange church laws that could get you arrested.

Alabama

It is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

Delaware

In Rehoboth it is illegal to whisper in church.

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11 Bizarre Church Laws That Could Send You To Jail (Original Post) cbayer Jun 2014 OP

Probably guilty on two counts Uben Jun 2014 #1

Funny. I have definitely whispered and sneezed. cbayer Jun 2014 #2

I guess that they could bust me on whispering in church, and on not bringing a shotgun with me. (nt) stone space Jun 2014 #3

I usually don't believe compilations like this struggle4progress Jun 2014 #4

Uben

(7,719 posts)

1. Probably guilty on two counts

Reply to cbayer (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:54 AM

Jun 2014

Had sex in a graveyard and I'm sure I've killed a fly near a church without a license.

With the fly, it was a case of "stand your ground".

cbayer

(146,218 posts)

2. Funny. I have definitely whispered and sneezed.

Reply to Uben (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:58 AM

Jun 2014

The most bizarre to me is the no jokes by the minister.

What??

stone space

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3. I guess that they could bust me on whispering in church, and on not bringing a shotgun with me. (nt)

Reply to cbayer (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:33 AM

Jun 2014

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)

4. I usually don't believe compilations like this

Reply to cbayer (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 06:15 PM

Jun 2014

My search of the Alabama Code, using the search function at the Alabama legislature's website, produced no hits for mustache

A similar search of Maine Revised Statutes for shotgun, using the search function at the Maine legislature's website, produced no laws requiring shotguns in churches, unsurprising since the last Indian attack in Maine seems to have occurred in 1781, about forty years before Maine gained statehood

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