Posted on 03/29/2018 1:56:53 PM PDT by marktwain
Monday, March 12, Governor Mead signed HEA 34 (HB 141). This not a gun bill; it is a government bill. Concealed Weapons in Places of Worship is not about whether concealed weapons will be in places of worship or not. It is about whether church or state decides the matter, and whether it is enforced by guns or by the Word of God.HB 141 passed the 56-2 on February 27, 2018. It barely passed the Senate committee 3-2, but passed the full Senate 21-9 on March 7, 2018. The Senate Committee on Agriculture is composed of five Republicans. Two of those Republicans, Senator Paul Barnard and Senator Fred Emerich, voted against this popular bill to restore First and Second Amendment rights. Senator Fred Emerich voted against the bill on the Senate floor vote, while Senator Barnard changed his vote and voted for the bill.
Short of armed guards and metal detectors, the only people who can keep guns out of the sanctuary are the worshipers themselves. This is as obviously true as it is routinely forgotten.
Worshipers whose piety prohibits armaments in the house of God will empty purses and pockets of knives and guns without being asked. Those who see no conflict between piety and what is in their purse may, or may not, be corrected by church authorities.
It is an entirely different matter when the state enacts a law. These neither depend on religious sensibilities, nor on respect for sacred spaces and clergy. Rather, state laws rest upon the threat of fines and incarceration. Such threats may, or may not, persuade worshipers to leave weapons at home. But they definitely do invite secular power into the church.
Bravo, Wyoming!
Luke 22:36
I’ve always carried in church with no regard to any law saying otherwise. Nice to see it’s legal, though.
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The government should not be deciding what rights can be exercised in what private locations.
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Pfft. Next you’ll be screaming you own your own body and some conspiracy re: Obama and the FBI/DOJ....wait.
I respect law and abide accordingly but will nullify any if need be to uphold my God given rights.
My son is a youth minister at a church. The other day he was leading the group on a lesson regarding “an eye for an eye”, “turn the other cheek”, Jesus healing the soldiers ear, and also the “sell your cloak and buy a sword”.
It used to be take my eye and I can kill you. The eye for an eye is full of grace.
Turn the other cheek is in matters of insults and in the courts.
Jesus healing the soldier’s ear - that was not how Jesus wanted to go to the cross. He wanted to see that they were wrong about him. And that he was not about anger - but of love.
The buy a sword is when it comes to the self defense of yourself and your family and others.
None of them know that he always carries wherever he can. And he always does his research.
“Um - son, I don’t think you can carry at a dance club.”
“This one I can. It allows 18 year-olds [minors] on the dance floor - just not in the bar area. As long as I don’t go into the bar I’m golden.”
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