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This guy used to live across the street from us: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090626/NEWS03/906260373/2+held+in+Nashville+officer+s+shooting+. God watch over you, Mark Chesnut.
When I was a regular church attendee, we were encouraged to bring friends, as in people, not guns.
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Published: June 25, 2009
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Ken Pagano, the pastor of the New Bethel Church here, is passionate about gun rights. He shoots regularly at the local firing range, and his sermon two weeks ago was on “God, Guns, Gospel and Geometry.” And on Saturday night, he is inviting his congregation of 150 and others to wear or carry their firearms into the sanctuary to “celebrate our rights as Americans!” as a promotional flier for the “open carry celebration” puts it.
Jim Winn for The New York Times
Ken Pagano of New Bethel Church in Louisville, Ky. “God and guns were part of the foundation of this country,” he said.
“God and guns were part of the foundation of this country,” Mr. Pagano, 49, said Wednesday in the small brick Assembly of God church, where a large wooden cross hung over the altar and two American flags jutted from side walls. “I don’t see any contradiction in this. Not every Christian denomination is pacifist.
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