We’ve heard of support animals, but prayer pups? From the Courier Journal:

Several Kentucky law enforcement agencies, including the Kentucky State Police, sent officers to a paid canine training conference at Northern Kentucky’s Ark Encounter that has included gospel sermons and memorizing Bible verses, The Courier Journal has learned.

The participation in the annual conference has alarmed advocates for a separation of church and state, including the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which wrote a letter to the KSP in March saying it was “unconstitutional and unwarranted” to send officers to train with a religious entity.

Northern Kentucky’s Fort Thomas Police Department, which sent an officer and a German Short Haired Pointer named Bulleit to the Ark Encounter’s third annual canine conference in February summed up the event as “4 days of training, speeches and gospel sermons,” according to a report obtained by The Courier Journal under Kentucky’s open records law.

Did they bring two dogs each?

If the cops want to go to church, do it on their own dime. Don’t pretend that they’re training dogs at Noah’s Ark and make us pay for it. And if they really care about dogs, they should be supporting and making donations to the Noah’s Ark Animal Foundation in Fairfield, Iowa, not some pretend Kentucky amusement park for Bible thumpers who think dinosaurs roamed around with humans, like in “The Flintstones.”

The people behind the Ark Encounter treat the Bible with as much respect as these guys did in the movie “Dogma.”