…so shooting GAYS during Church services is the next logical step, right?

What morons. I’m pretty sure the people of yore had a different reason for carrying guns to Church. America was still pretty much wild and untamed. And not too many made the trek within the safe confines of their Cadillacs or Lincolns. But let’s not let logic or sanity stand in our way.

Why only go half-way? Ken Pagano should drop the charade and advise his congregation to bring along their white robes this Sunday. It is where the Church is headed, again, right?

Kentucky church prepares for celebration of God and guns

Unusual service has brought a mixed reaction, welcomed by gun owners and widely derided elsewhere

For tomorrow’s service at his church in Kentucky, a pastor has invited his congregation to bring along their Bibles, a tin of canned food, a friend – and their guns.

Ken Pagano, who packs a pistol of his own, wants his parishioners to openly wear their firearms at the New Bethel Church in Louisville to mark the 4 July Independence anniversary and celebrate the part guns played in the making of the nation.

I do not see any contradiction. I do not see any incongruity as a Christian. It is not unbiblical. It is not illegal. And it is not unconstitutional.

The unusual service has brought a mixed reaction, welcomed by many gun owners but widely derided elsewhere with fellow pastors and victims of gun crime questioning whether it is appropriate to carry weapons in a church.

Pagano, a 49-year-old former marine, acknowledged that bringing guns to church was uncommon in modern culture but said in New England in colonial times there were racks at the back of the church for rifles for militia men. America’s founding fathers had a genuine belief in arms, he said: “I stand in that tradition and I am proud of it.”

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