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Gun-control sabbath calls for assault ban
UPI.com ^ | 2/17/2013 | UPI

Posted on 03/18/2013 11:23:35 AM PDT by aimhigh

Religious leaders attending the U.S. Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath Weekend called for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, organizers said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; communism; communists; coup; guncontrol; progressiveagenda; religiousleft; secondamendment
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FAITHS UNITED TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE

As of January 28, 2013 (45 endorsers)

African Methodist Episcopal Church
Alliance of Baptists
American Baptist Churches of the South
American Baptist Home Mission Societies
American Friends Service Committee
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
Catholic Health Association of the United States
Catholic Health Initiatives
Catholics In Alliance for the Common Good
Catholics United
Church of the Brethren
Church Women United
Conference of Major Superiors of Men
Disciples Home Missions, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Dominican Sisters of Peace
The Episcopal Church
Franciscan Action Network
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Health Ministries Association
Heeding God’s Call
International Parish Nurse Resource Center
Islamic Society of North America
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Jewish Reconstructionist Movement
Leadership Conference of Women Religious
Mennonite Central Committee, Washington Office
National Advocacy Center, Sisters of the Good Shepherd
National Council of Churches Of Christ in the U.S.A.
National Episcopal Health Ministries
National Latino Evangelical Coalition
NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Pax Christi USA
PICO National Network — Lifelines to Healing Campaign
Presbyterian Church USA
Progressive National Baptist Convention
Rabbinical Assembly
Sikh Council on Religion and Education
Union for Reform Judaism
Unitarian Universalist Association
United Church of Christ – Justice and Witness Covenanted Ministry
United Methodist Church — General Board of Church and Society
United Methodist Church – United Methodist Women
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Women of Reform Judaism
World Sikh Council – American Region

1 posted on 03/18/2013 11:23:35 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

The usual suspects.


2 posted on 03/18/2013 11:24:36 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: aimhigh

The USUAL “National Council of “Churches”” “Suspects”.


3 posted on 03/18/2013 11:24:48 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: Fido969

We would be better off if we could ban false prophets!


4 posted on 03/18/2013 11:28:49 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Fido969

They would have banned David from carrying a sling.


5 posted on 03/18/2013 11:31:43 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: aimhigh

???

So about 26 people with 70 websites between them?


6 posted on 03/18/2013 11:38:57 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: aimhigh

Yawn.....


7 posted on 03/18/2013 11:42:04 AM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~)
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To: Fido969
Once again, my "give a damn" seems to be busted... Let me offer all these good church people a compromise.

I believe in a balanced approach to these issues. If they want to put restrictions on my second amendment rights, then I want the right to decide what "reasonable limits" should be put on their religious practices. Because I suspect that some of them ain't righteous, and I'd like to be the one who decides.

8 posted on 03/18/2013 11:45:50 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: Fido969
The JPFO (jpfo.org Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Organization) says that they are all enemy agents.

No I am not Jewish but one does not have to be to be a member of the JPFO... or the NRA... or the GOA. I am a member of all three!

LLS

“Gun Control is not Kosher” (JPFO)

9 posted on 03/18/2013 11:48:31 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: aimhigh
Luke 22:36 - Then said he unto them, 'But now, he that has a purse, let him take it, and likewise his bag: and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.'

Jesus clearly advocated a balanced approach to all parts of life (as in Ecclesiastes 3:1), not a life centered on warfare but also not a purely passive life of turning the other cheek. These "Christians" who want the people forcibly disarmed by government need to understand the Bible better. We are to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's. Since essentially everything is God's, I will retain the weapons necessary to protect the life and the freedom that God gave me.

10 posted on 03/18/2013 11:48:51 AM PDT by Pollster1
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To: aimhigh

“Religious leaders attending the U.S. Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath Weekend called for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines”

Even for police and federal agents?


11 posted on 03/18/2013 11:49:28 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: aimhigh

FAITHS UNITED TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

We, The Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, are dedicated to eliminating scary-looking guns that account for an extremely small portion of gun violence.

Our hope is that 100% of gun violence will be committed with not-scary-looking guns. This should reduce the fear that gun violence produces in our communities and let the healing begin.

-END-


12 posted on 03/18/2013 11:49:51 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: aimhigh

How about a ban on people who believe it’s OK to murder?


13 posted on 03/18/2013 11:53:19 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Make you mad? $h!t in a hat.)
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To: aimhigh

A sabbath is a rest from something. So a “gun control sabbath” group would actually be a group advocating we take a break from gun control.


14 posted on 03/18/2013 12:00:11 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: LibLieSlayer

My JPFO bumper sticker says:

Gun Control Made the Holocaust Possible


15 posted on 03/18/2013 12:02:06 PM PDT by July4 (Remember the price paid for your freedom.)
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To: USNBandit
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Jewish Reconstructionist Movement

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

16 posted on 03/18/2013 12:08:56 PM PDT by NY.SS-Bar9 (The AR-15 is the Honda Civic of rifles ®)
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To: aimhigh

I like lists like this one. They keep me up to date on which “churches” have been infiltrated by the America/Freedom-hating commie libs. I’ll bet they all support “gay marriage” too.


17 posted on 03/18/2013 12:11:35 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Whatever happened to the land of the free, home of the brave?)
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To: Fido969
World Association of Useful Idiots!

Dependence on government for personal defense is the ultimate surrender of self to the state. It is an invitation to tyranny that few governments will resist.

18 posted on 03/18/2013 12:14:39 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: July4

Amen brother!!!

LLS


19 posted on 03/18/2013 12:17:51 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“I like lists like this one. They keep me up to date on which “churches” have been infiltrated by the America/Freedom-hating commie libs. I’ll bet they all support “gay marriage” too.”

Well if they’re not now, they will soon. And members of their congregations are to blame for putting money in their collection plates every week. No givey = no churchy.

We have options, and there are Biblical denominations out there who refuse to cowtow to the Marxist wingnuts in this country.


20 posted on 03/18/2013 12:47:59 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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