A Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Posted by XT on February 27th, 2009 in US News

There is no joy for God-luvvin’ gun-nuts in Arkasas today. The state Senate has defeated a proposal to allow concealed handguns in churches.

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Beverly Pyle, R-Cedarville, told the panel after the vote that she may try again with the proposal.

“This is not a gun question, it is a question of religious freedom,” Pyle said.

I think Miss Pyle is in need of some serious Bible-reading. Guns simply are not mentioned at all – not surprising when you consider it was written hundreds of years prior to guns being invented (if not thousands of years).

Gov. Mike Beebe has said he’d sign the bill if it made it to his desk.

Of course, he wins either way. If you don’t like the bill, he simply points to the fact it will never get to his desk. If you’re on the other side of the issue, so is he.

State Sen. Sue Madison, D-Fayetteville, said she didn’t see the need for the bill.

“I don’t know of any church where the carrying of guns is a sacred belief intrinsic to the doctrine of that church, like the holding of communion might be,” Madison said.

I’m with her. There simply is no Sacred Forty-five Caliber. Heck, Jesus didn’t even carry a sword or dagger – the primary weapons of his time. It’s “turn the other cheek” not “just blow them away.”

Grant Exton, the executive director of the Arkansas Concealed Carry Association, said of 48 states that allow concealed carry permits, 42 let churches make the decision to ban or allow firearms.

And if forty-two states jumped off the Empire State Building, it would still be stupid.

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