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Related: About this forum11 Bizarre Church Laws That Could Send You To Jail
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/01/weird-church-laws_n_5398732.htmlThe 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
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Uben
(7,719 posts)1. Probably guilty on two counts
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.
The most bizarre to me is the no jokes by the minister.
What??
stone space
(6,498 posts)3. I guess that they could bust me on whispering in church, and on not bringing a shotgun with me. (nt)
struggle4progress
(118,285 posts)4. I usually don't believe compilations like this
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