Kentucky Pastor Invites People To Bring Guns To Church

[DeSwiss]

Kentucky Pastor Invites People To Bring Guns To Church

Huffington Post | DYLAN T. LOVAN | June 4, 2009 09:52 PM EST | AP


Ken Pagano, pastor of New Bethel Church in Louisville, Kentucky, talks, Wednesday, June 3, 2009,
about the importance of raising awareness of gun safety which will be discussed at the "Open Carry
Church Service" at the church on June 27th. (AP Photo/Aaron Borton, The Courier-Journal)

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's Protestant church, which attracts up to 150 people to Sunday services, is a member of the Assemblies of God.

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you is flawed -- and shockingly stingy" ~ Betty Bowers

[MichaelHarris]

1. When I first read that story

I wondered, do they worship a God or a Gun?

[DeSwiss]

2. "....do they worship a God or a Gun?"

- Yes.

[MichaelHarris]

4. Wonder what

caliber Jesus would use?

[DeSwiss]

5. Typically I think he goes with his 9mm.....

http://thumb.visualizeus.com/thumbs/08/11/04/afghanistan,door,gun,hell,houses,jesus,kill,knock,korengal,mountain,torture,valley,village-5910bfdc3c3a34f2ad342b49aebba7f8_m.jpg

- But that's just for the in-close work......

[TankLV]

3. Guess where I will be the FARTHEST AWAY I CAN GET FROM?

[DeSwiss]

6. Yeah and I'll bet.....

...no one asks the ushers for change either.

[flobee1]

7. private security will check visitors at the door

the only people that will attend will be the people packin heat

I know that if I forsee a line just to get into a church-I'm going elsewhere

[rug]

8. May come in handy if the snakes get out of hand.

[spin]

9. Is anyone aware that many people carry LOADED firearms in a church...

they're legally concealed.

If I were to go to church (which might qualify as a miracle), I would carry a loaded revolver concealed.

You could be sitting in the pew right beside me and you would never know that I had a firearm.

Guns in church ain't no big deal. Hell, it happens all the time.