I got your religion of piece hangin'.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Kentucky pastor is inviting his flock to bring guns to church to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Second Amendment.
New Bethel Church is welcoming "responsible handgun owners" to wear their firearms inside the church June 27, a Saturday. An ad says there will be a handgun raffle, patriotic music and information on gun safety.
"We're just going to celebrate the upcoming theme of the birth of our nation," said pastor Ken Pagano. "And we're not ashamed to say that there was a strong belief in God and firearms — without that this country wouldn't be here."
The guns must be unloaded and private security will check visitors at the door, Pagano said.
He said recent church shootings, including the killing Sunday of a late-term abortion provider in Kansas, which he condemned, highlight the need to promote safe gun ownership. The New Bethel Church event was planned months before Dr. George Tiller was shot to death in a Wichita church.
Kentucky allows residents to openly carry guns in public with some restrictions. Gun owners carrying concealed weapons must have state-issued permits and can't take them to schools, jails or bars, among other exceptions.
Pagano, 50, said some members of his church were concerned that President Obama's administration could restrict gun ownership, and they supported the plan for the event when Pagano asked their opinion.
Marian McClure Taylor, executive director of the Kentucky Council of Churches, an umbrella organization for 11 Christian denominations in Kentucky, said Christian churches are promoters of peace, but "most allow for arms to be taken up under certain conditions."
Taylor said Pagano assured her the event would focus on promoting responsible gun ownership and any proceeds would go to charity.
"Those two commitments are consistent with the high value the Assemblies of God churches place on human life," she said in an e-mail message.
Pagano is encouraging church members to bring a canned good and a friend to the event. He said guns must be unloaded for insurance purposes and safety reasons.
He said the point was not to mix worship with guns, though he may reference some passages from the Bible.
"Firearms can be evil and they can be useful," he said. "We're just trying to promote responsible gun ownership and gun safety."
Meanwhile, a Christian man got angry and shot a Muslim man during a religious debate. No wait, I might be a little off on that. Click here to find out.
Imagine if it were the other way around.
8 comments:
You go, Pastor!
However, why must the guns be unloaded? That's kinda counterproductive, ain't it? (to be fair that may be a Kentucky statute).
Here in Pennsylvania I can and do carry a loaded firearm concealed to church (ain't restricted here) just in the event some nitwit decides to try and take back America or something. Churches are a prime target for idiots and Jihadis. But I repeat myself. Think George Tiller, The Yeshiva School, Jeanne Assam. . .
Here's something most Christians don't know. (I know it because I pretty much only went out with Jewish chicks, before I met my wife), almost every Synagogue in the U.S. is patrolled by armed guard.
Imagine if you had to worship like that.
Jews should carry guns.
By the way, I was walking in my neighborhood today and someone spray-painted a Swastika in front of a house. I don't know for sure that the house is owned by a Jewish family, but what do you think?
Unfortunately there are too many clowns who just think the Swastika is cool and paint it wherever they want without realizing it's full symbolism.
But then there are the real fritcakes out there who know exactly what it means.
So you can't tell from where it's painted what reason it was painted for. Nor does it matter.
Better finish that.
Nor does it matter because it's evil wherever it's painted.
No, this was painted on the sidewalk in front of someone's house. The street is not a busy street. This was done for a reason, I'd be willing to bet.
Doesn't matter. Unless it was done by a cross eyed Native American it shouldn't have been painted at all.
Carry on, Rev. Pagano. And I do mean "carry".
Pasto, I don't remember anything like that when I was growing up in a largely Jewish city back in the '50s. And that was only +/- 10 years after the Holocaust. Shows how the situation has deteriorated.
RRA,
My wife was with me when I saw the thing. She talked about how she had heard a news report that anti-Semitism was on the rise in America. She said something about how neo-Nazis were experiencing a resurgence. I told her the anti-semitism is largely coming from Muslims and college students/faculty.
we live in a college town. The swastika was just 2 blocks away from the campus.
You do the math.
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