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The PCUSA On Guns
captainsjournal.com ^ | 6/22/2014 | Herschel Smith

Posted on 06/23/2014 7:54:08 AM PDT by rktman

Presbyterian Church (USA) on guns:

Among other things, the Assembly’s action calls for:

formation of support, healing and advocacy groups for those who have experienced gun violence in their families; opposition to legislation that exempts gun manufacturers and marketers from legal liability and/or financial accountability for the medical and security costs of predictable gun misuse and availability to criminals, the unstable, and the self-destructive; opposition to “stand your ground” and other legislation that may entitle gun owners to shoot before taking alternative measures (such as relying on law enforcement and/or other de-escalation techniques) in perceived defense of persons or property; encouraging church sessions and PC(USA) entities that own property to declare their particular premises and gatherings to be gun-free zones; raising the age for handgun ownership to 21; supporting legislation to ban semiautomatic assault weapons, armor-piercing handgun ammunition and .50-caliber rifles; and advocacy in support of state and federal legislation to regulate ammunition.

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TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; calvinism; fruitsofcalvin; guncontrol; lesbyterian; pcusa; presbyterian; reformation; reformed; religiousleft
Any Presbyterians out there. Boycott Israel and guncontrol? What's up with that?
1 posted on 06/23/2014 7:54:08 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

So basically they are for the complete disarming of America.


2 posted on 06/23/2014 7:56:29 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: rktman

Every Presbyterian church I have been affiliated with has left the PCUSA.


3 posted on 06/23/2014 7:57:04 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: rktman

Yes, relying on the cops in a situation where “stand your ground” would come into play is an effective de-escalation technique ...


4 posted on 06/23/2014 8:01:04 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: rktman
relying on law enforcement and/or other de-escalation techniques

De-escalation?

De-escalation?

When the cops show up is when dogs start dying!

5 posted on 06/23/2014 8:04:30 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: rktman
Wow...PCUSA has gone full retard.


6 posted on 06/23/2014 8:05:23 AM PDT by moovova
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Any Presbyterians out there. Boycott Israel and guncontrol? What's up with that?

PCUSA has been that way for a long time.

opposition to “stand your ground”

I suspect they simply don't understand "stand your ground".

encouraging church sessions and PC(USA) entities that own property to declare their particular premises and gatherings to be gun-free zones

My Dad's church posted an IL compliant gun gunbuster sign. My brother, who's on session there, was the sole dissenting vote.

7 posted on 06/23/2014 8:29:45 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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To: Lee N. Field

Thanks to your brother for his opposition to this garbage. Apparently a lone voice in the group.


8 posted on 06/23/2014 8:35:52 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: circlecity

Looks to me like they’re into “thug empowerment”.


9 posted on 06/23/2014 8:37:01 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: rktman

The few men left in the PCUSA are not the type to do manly things like guns.


10 posted on 06/23/2014 8:45:11 AM PDT by lurk
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Thanks to your brother for his opposition to this garbage. Apparently a lone voice in the group.

Most people didn't care. It was pushed by one woman with little kids who was worried about a gun "going off". The congregation was not consulted.

(This is a somewhat unusual congregation. A country church, out in the middle of nowhere. Historically, mostly area farmers, but that's changed in my lifetime. Historically, probably more conservative than your typical PCUSA church.)

11 posted on 06/23/2014 9:01:07 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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So pretty much they have turned into a Liberal Rockband Hippie Jee-SUSS church....


12 posted on 06/23/2014 9:25:28 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG

And not much Jesus, if you ask me.


13 posted on 06/23/2014 9:46:30 AM PDT by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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To: rktman

WTF? They might as well convert to islam while their at it... losers.


14 posted on 06/23/2014 10:00:43 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: moovova

You can say that again.


15 posted on 06/23/2014 10:02:49 AM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: circlecity

Exactly. Along with promotion of abortions and homosexuality and hatred of Israel.


16 posted on 06/23/2014 3:30:38 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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