Had things gone as planned, up to 500 people would have been crowding into the Cedar Grove Methodist Church near Thorsby today celebrating a job well done in the do-it-yourself construction of their new house of worship.
Instead, an 80-foot span of the new church’s roof sits in a heap in the sanctuary floor right where those hundreds would have congregated.
Carroll, himself a homebuilder, said he was not aware of any requirements and remains unconvinced a government body should have a say in how a church is built.
“If the state and the church are separate, I don’t understand why they think they’ve got jurisdiction,” he said.