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Police Officer Shows Grace To Grandmother Caught Stealing Eggs

An Alabama police officer says he just wants to encourage those in his community to feed the hungry after media caught wind of his act of generosity toward a woman who was caught stealing eggs to feed her grandchildren.

Tarrant officer William Stacy was called to a Dollar General store on December 6th after 47-year-old Helen Johnson was discovered with eggs on her pocket.  Johnson said she had gone into the store with $1.25 to buy eggs and found the eggs were $1.75.

She placed three eggs in her pocket and was caught by store personnel.

The officer discovered that Johnson’s two grandchildren, ages 3 and 1, had not eaten since two days earlier.

Officer Stacy said that unlike many other times when he’s called to the scene of a shoplifting crime, this seemed like the case of a woman who was desperate to help her grandchildren.

“She started crying,” Stacy told reporters. “She said, ‘I need help. I need help, Officer Stacy, I need to put food in my babies’ stomachs.’ That’s what got me. That’s what hit me the hardest. I told her [to] park on the side of the parking lot. I ran in, bought the carton of eggs, came back outside, handed them to her and she got very emotional, very apologetic.”

A customer in the store caught the incident on camera and uploaded it to the web.  In that time, the family has received SUV loads of food from a local food bank and other officers in the area.

“I don’t see myself as a hero,” Stacy stated. “I’m not a big fan of cameras and the spotlight. I just want to do my job, do it the right way, and spend time with friends and family.”

Anti-Christianists Threaten Town’s Christmas Parade

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is at it again.

The group has threatened the town of Piedmont, Alabama over their Christmas parade.

The town had decided they wanted the parade’s theme to revolve around the true “reason for the season” and selected “Keep Christ In Christmas” as the parade’s theme.  Immediately, the Christian-hating group fired off a letter to the mayor of the town claiming some unnamed resident complained about the theme.

The FFRF routinely claims unidentified people complain about things so they can advance their campaign to remove Christians from society.

The city had renamed their theme after the threat from the Christian-haters but residents participating in the parade took it upon themselves to proclaim Christ multiple times throughout the parade.

“If we stick together like this, all the good Christian people will stick together and lift up the name of Jesus Christ, and not let these athiests and the non-believers scare us like they do, it will be a better world,” attendee Harold Martin said.

“This anti-religious group that started all this stuff, I really believe this has backfired on them,” Mayor Baker said.  “What has happened now is the city of Piedmont, great city to live in, great people, has rallied.  They have caused our parade to be bigger and better with more emphasis placed on Christianity.”

The city reported the largest attendance ever for a Christmas parade.

Alabama County Rejects Anti-Christianists Opposed To “In God We Trust” Plaque

County commissioners in Mobile County have stood up to anti-Christianists furious that they posted a plaque with the national motto, “In God We Trust.”

The Mobile County Commission had voted in June 2-1 to display the national motto in the Government Plaza despite the outcry of anti-Christianists who said that any reference to God is automatically endorsing Christianity.

“I strongly urge the commission to reject the display ‘In God We Trust’,” anti-Christianist Amanda Scott told the Commissioners. “It would only serve to divide Mobile on religion when we’re already so divided on other issues.”

Commissioner Jerry Carl said that the word “God” is universal to multiple faiths and that it doesn’t designate a specific faith.

Anti-Christianists and other groups responded by attempting to pay for plaques that would promote their views over everyone else but the Commissioners rejected them all, instructing those who have an issue with the national motto to take it up with Congress.

Judge Strikes Down Alabama Abortion Law

A Democrat appointed federal judge has struck down an abortion law in Alabama that has passed Constitutional muster in multiple other states.

U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled that the law would require women to travel to obtain the end of their child’s life, and that because many of them are poor, it causes an undue burden on them to travel.

“A significant number of the women would be prevented from obtaining an abortion; others would be delayed in obtaining abortions, exposing them to greater risks of complications; and even the women who are able to obtain abortions would suffer significant harms in terms of time, financial cost, and invasion of privacy,” Thompson wrote.

Several abortionists including Planned Parenthood had sued to block the law that would have require doctors to have admitting privileges in the event they botch an abortion and cause a critical injury to a woman.

Thompson even suggested that there is no difference between abortion rights and gun rights.

Alabama Megachurch Opens Family Center To Community

An Alabama megachurch has opened up a facility made of a bowling alley and six giant interconnected domes to the public as a community outreach.

Faith Chapel Christian Center near Birmingham, Alabama has opened the center they call “The Bridge” to the public after opening it last year for the 6,400 members of the church.

The church says the delay came in getting staff in place for the entire facility, which beyond the bowling alley has basketball courts, fitness center, banquet hall and more.

Pastor Michael D. Moore says the goal of “The Bridge” is to “bridge people from the world to the kingdom.”

“People may not want to come to a church, but they’ll come to a bowling alley,” he told the Christian Post. “People have needs other than spiritual needs. There’s a need for safe, clean, uplifting, family-oriented entertainment.”

Moore founded the church with his wife, his mother and a friend in 1981.

North Alabama Abortion Clinic To Close

Northern Alabama will be without any abortion clinics as of June 27th.

Alabama Women’s Center is voluntarily shutting its doors because they cannot meet the requirements of the state’s new abortion law which goes into effect on July 1.

The Alabama Women’s Health and Safety Act, which passed in April 2013, stipulates that doctors working at abortion clinics in the state have hospital admitting privileges in the same city where they perform abortions.  Also, all abortion clinics must meet the same safety standards as ambulatory surgical centers.

The standards include making sure hallways are wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs and patient gurneys.   Failure to meet the requirements would mean the state health department must revoke the clinic’s license.

The clinic’s owners say they hope to be able to reopen their clinic in the future at a different location that meets the state requirements for women’s health and safety.

Alabama Church Plants Flags To Honor War Dead

An Alabama church spent Memorial Day planting one flag in their front yard for every soldier who died during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

Grace Place Church of Enterprise, Alabama said that each of the 6,809 flags was paid for from donations from private citizens and church members who wanted to remind the community of the true and heavy cost of freedom.

“Freedom isn’t free,” Pastor Donny Thrasher told The Christian Post.  “It often is paid for with the lives of our military.”

Thrasher said that churches should be leading the way in honoring the families of those men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom to worship Christ openly by making sure their loved ones left behind have their needs met.  All funds raised for the flags above the actual cost was donated to a charity that provides for the widows and families of slain soldiers.

“No people in the world are as free as we are to worship without fear of reprisal,” Thrasher said.  “That freedom to worship and serve our Lord and Savior is protected and paid for by our military.”

University of Alabama Swimmer Dies Saving Girlfriend

A swimmer on the University of Alabama swim team made the ultimate sacrifice saving his girlfriend during Monday’s tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa.

John Servati, 21, was taking shelter with his girlfriend when a concrete wall began to collapse on them.  Servati used his strength to hold up the wall so his girlfriend could escape before it collapsed upon him.

Servati was rescued by emergency personnel but died at DCH Regional Medical Center later that night from his injuries.

“John Servati was an extraordinary young man of great character and warmth who had a tremendously giving spirit,” Alabama coach Dennis Pursley said.  “During this incredibly difficult time, our thoughts and prayers go out ot his family and to all who had the good fortune to know him.”

Servati’s girlfriend suffered only superficial injuries and was treated and released from the hospital.  She is currently with her family dealing with her boyfriend’s death.

Southern U.S. Pummeled By Latest Storm

Southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle were slammed by a severe storm, bringing death and destruction across the South.

Drivers on Interstate 10 at the Alabama-Florida state line were forced to abandon their vehicles and walk to safety after officials shut it down due to high water.

The flooding also kept fire rescue crews from being able to respond to calls for help in the  Pensacola area.

“It’s gotten to the point where we can’t send EMS and fire rescue crews out on some 911 calls  because they can’t get there,” Escambia County spokesman Bill Pearson said. “We’ve had people whose homes are flooding and they’ve had to climb up to the attic.”

Alabama was hit with 11.5 inches of rain overnight. Officials were calling people living south of Interstate 10 warning them not to travel.

Alabama Supreme Court Extends Child Protection Laws To Unborn Babies

The Alabama Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling for the rights of unborn children.

In an 8 to 1 decision, the Court ruled that the state’s child protection laws apply to unborn children, declaring that the court believes a child in the womb has a right to life.

The ruling came in the case of a woman who had been using cocaine while pregnant.  When her child was born, the infant has cocaine in their system and the mother was charged with violation of the state’s chemical endangerment statute.

Her lawyers claimed that an unborn child was not a child under the definition of state law.

Mat Staver of the Liberty Counsel applauded the court’s decision.

“In an age where some judges do not know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, or do not even care, finally the Alabama Supreme Court springs forth with a ray of light,” Staver said in a statement.