Ky. pastor welcomes guns, their owners to church
HUH?
AJC-….”We are wanting to send a message that there are legal, civil, intelligent and law-abiding citizens who also own guns,” Pagano said during the 90-minute event, which was open to the public. “If it were not for a deep-seated belief in the right to bear arms, this country would not be here today,” he told the crowd, drawing hearty applause and exclamations of “Amen!”
The “Open Carry Celebration” included a handgun raffle, patriotic music and screening of gun safety videos. Some gun owners carried old-fashioned six-shooters in leather holsters, while others packed modern police-style firearms. Kentucky allows residents to openly carry guns in public with some restrictions.
“I just believe in the right to protect ourselves,” said Liz Boyer, who had a bright pink Glock in a black holster at her side. The 41-year-old isn’t a member of the church but teaches a class on gun safety for women at a local range.
Brittany Rogers, 23, feared guns as a child. But her fiance encouraged her to go sport shooting with him about a year ago, and she said she has been hooked ever since. On Saturday, she brought her tiny Kel-Tec P-32 to church.
“It was a fear of the unknown,” Rogers said, “but now I love it.”
Pagano’s Protestant church, which attracts up to 150 people to Sunday services in a conservative neighborhood of southwest Louisville, belongs to the Assemblies of God. He thought up the event after some church members expressed concern about the Obama administration’s views on gun control, though the president hasn’t moved to put new restrictions on ownership…
1. Thieves would be ill advised to mess with them
2. Better than the rattlesnakes
3. Preacher better have some good sermons for the congregation
4. High probability that this bunch ain’t doin’ no gay weddings
5. So what’s the problem with them doing their thing ?
John,
You really are in the wrong party!
saltyd,
AMEN!