The Million Mom March to speak at Catholic Church- "Can We Prevent Gun Violence"

Highlands Peace Action ^ | 07.22.03

[Coleus]

WEST MILFORD - A leader of the Million Mom March is coming to town Thursday to speak to parents about the consequences of keeping a gun at home.

Joyce Sooy, joyces3@excelonline.com  president of the Bergen/Passaic chapter of the Million Mom March, will speak on the topic, "Can We Prevent Gun Violence?" at 7:30 p.m. Our Lady Queen of Peace R.C. Church on Union Valley Road.

Sooy led a bus caravan from Bergen County on Mother's Day in 2000 to attend the Million Mom March in Washington, D.C. Thousands of mothers around the nation gathered to call on lawmakers to enact stricter gun laws.

The discussion is co-sponsored by the church and http://www.highlandspeaceaction.org/ Highlands Peace Action, a group of citizens who support grass-roots efforts toward peace.

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Chapter Name:	Bergen/Passaic County
Contact Name:	Joyce
E-Mail:	Click here to contact this chapter

http://www.millionmommarch.org/chapters/list.asp?state=nj

http://www.millionmommarch.org/index.asp

http://mmmnj.bizland.com/

Joyce Sooy of Emerson was among those taking part in the anti-gun gathering. She said gun control has been an important issue to her ever since her adult son, Eric, killed himself with his brother-in-law's gun while suffering from depression 10 years ago. She said gun control is an important step toward preventing suicide.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/impeach-bush/message/2361

"We don't believe him," said Joyce Sooy, a Republican from Emerson Township."Now he's trying to backtrack and appeal to the moderates."

http://www.southjerseynews.com/issues/november/m110201kk.htm

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[Coleus]

Yep, and the Protestant's can do the same too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/950821/posts?page=66#66
Works every time. Abstinance.

[Coleus]

I wonder what would have happened in NYC earlier this week? Since they have all sorts of GUN CONTROL (what ever the hell that is) the shooter shouldn't,>>>

The Shooter purchased his gun in North Carolina where there is no gun control. The problem is that this guy beat his homo lover with a hammer in 96, was charged, and pled the case to a misdemeanor; therefore, no records or fingerprints were in the computer. Had he been prosecuted for assault, NC wouldn't have allowed him to purchase the gun.

[Coleus]

The problem is that there are 726 pervert protestant ministers who raped and abused children where many of the cases were not put in the national media and Protestants on the FR take every chance they get to bash Catholics, even on threads about the Million Mom March at a Catholic Church, very Un-Christian brothers of mine must bring up "pervert priests" make fun of a man with Parkinsons ( I just love their Protestant Christian Charity, making fun of people with Parkinsons, it shows a great example of their faith) just to add salt into the wounds, bash Catholics in a thread not germaine to the subject Matter. Please post ME articales proving none of them weren't transferred. And read those links more closely, do you really think ALL were first-time offences?


Troubled Newark reverend removed
Sex offender loses Shiloh Baptist post
Wednesday, May 07, 2003

BY WILLIAM KLEINKNECHT
Star-Ledger Staff

A convicted sex offender from Florida who was hired as pastor of Newark's Shiloh Baptist Church has been removed from the position, a state official said yesterday.
Joseph Delmar, spokesman for the state Division of Youth and Family Services, said the church informed the agency that its leaders voted Thursday to remove the Rev. Chavalis T. Williams as pastor.

DYFS was involved because Williams, as pastor, was a board member of Shiloh Rainbow Academy, the church's day care center. The agency had warned the academy that Williams could not be allowed on the day care's premises.
"We have been informed by Shiloh that the Rev. Williams is no longer employed by the church," Delmar said. "Our concerns for the safety of the children have been met."
A number of church members said John Sabb, chairman of the church's board of deacons, informed the congregation of Williams' removal at a special meeting Monday night.
Sabb declined to comment.

In 1999, Williams, then known as Chavalis Bonsell, pleaded guilty to arranging for two teenagers to have sex in front of him and others while working at a facility for troubled teens in Jacksonville, Fla. At the time of his arrest, he was on probation after pleading guilty to an earlier charge of beating his wife.

After pleading guilty to charges of child abuse and using children in a sexual performance, Williams was sentenced to six months in jail and 30 months of probation.

Shiloh's leadership knew he was a registered sex offender in Florida and hired him in mid-March, provoking outrage among some members of the congregation. Many members of the church pressed the leadership to rescind his $45,000 annual contract.

Since being hired, Williams commuted from Florida and had only been at the church on two or three occasions, relying on associate ministers for Sunday sermons. He told the congregation he was planning to relocate to New Jersey.
Williams previously declined repeated requests for a comment on his past and could not be reached yesterday.
The controversy over Williams' pastorship divided the once close-knit church, which is on Davenport Avenue in the city's North Ward and will soon be celebrating its 100th anniversary.

The church's leadership and many members of the congregation strongly supported Williams, a 27-year-old known for his inspiring sermons. Leaders of the church were irate that some members had leaked his past to the media.
But another group felt the church had been taken in by a con artist. They said Williams denied that he was a registered sex offender in Florida when he was confronted by church members and appeared to be trying to collect his pay as pastor without living in New Jersey.

[George W. Bush]

You seem to think that Baptists are a denomination. Not true.

Every Baptist church is entirely independent. They own their own properties. No clergyman is 'assigned' to them in the way the Prots or Roman churches do. They are a voluntary association of independent churches which hold to a common set of doctrine.

So your example fails the test, being not even remotely comparable to Roman bishops who knowingly and repeatedly assigned pedophiles to new territories with fresh victims.

The pattern of retaining and transferring known pediophile priests is a distinctive adminstrative characteristic of the Roman church. The scandal over pedophile priests is not that some clergymen, Roman or non-Roman, would molest children. It's whether denominational leaders knowingly cover up for such molesters, help them escape justice, and give them fresh victims in new territories (parishes).

[MarkL]

She's correct. No one EVER commits suicide by hanging themselves, overdosing on drugs, jumping off of a building, slitting the wrists, etc. I hate that her brother committed suicide, but she needs to quit being such a ditz.

And given the fact that nobody ever commits suicide in Japan, that being a utopia for gun banners...

Mark

FWIW, the last time I checked, the suicide rate in Japan is more than double that for the US, and one of the highest in the world.

[.30Carbine]

Good for you, d-back. Awesome letter. God bless its reception.

[Coleus]

Stop trolling. this was a thread about gun control and the million mom march, I knew by putting "Catholic" in the title line, the anti Catholic trolls would come out and start bashing the catholic church.

You fail to post your religion on your home page, ashamed of something? and you fail to admit that MORE protestants were charged with sex abuse than an other religions. When you stop playing around someone can take you seriously. So keep on trolling.

I see you provided no evidence that Protestants never transferred their pervert ministers, I knew you couldn't.

Also, I see the Baptists have great leaders: Bill Clinton, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Dick Gephardt... Yes, fine examples of the Protestants, keep up the good work.

[Flavius]

hi

is that data ok to quote?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

She said gun control is an important step toward preventing suicide.

That is why Japan has so few suicides...

[teeman8r]

archie also advocated arming all passengers on flights, so that if they were hijacked, the hijackers could be dealt with... very pressient...

[Coleus]

That is why Japan has so few suicides...>>>>>>

Do they? Are were you being facetious; I'm not privy to their statistics. How about Germany and England where guns are against the law too?

[lndrvr1972]

If someone wants to commit suicide they and are serious about it they will do anything to do it, IE driving their car into a tree,persciption drugs or hanging. To blame the gun industry is crazy.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yes I was being facetious. Statistically they commit suicide at twice the rate of Americans. click here

On the UK and Germany I have no idea.

[pro2A Mom]

Well...we wrote to our Pastor after the Deacon gave an anti-gun homily at our Catholic church. The local gunshop owner is also a member, and he wrote the pastor too, threatening to withhold all contributions until there was a PUBLIC apology. The Deacon had to apologize TWICE because we went to a different mass than he had anticipated. You should have seen his face when we walked into the second mass!

Anyway, that was just before I found SAS, and was one of the major contributing factors in my "activism"!

[oldironsides]

You just finding that out? Read about the Jesuits.

[Coleus]

Great, good for you. I'm glad people are doing something about it. I'll bet he will now watch what he says from now on concerning our rights and liberal issues. Keep up the good work. What does your pastor think about gun control? He seems to be on your side.

[Coleus]

You just finding that out? Read about the Jesuits.>>>

"The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church" by Father Malachi Martin, PhD

Review Here

[wideawake]

Oh, you're going to toss me out of my country, huh?

Bring it on, you stupid, anti-American fascist.

[Northern Yankee]

You have to wonder when the depression had set in, and just where was she during this time?

I just also wonder when are these people going to realize that when there are no more guns, the real tyranny will start.

I will nevere forget the taking of Elian Gonzalez, and how that family's Constitutional rights were completely stripped away when it was discovered that there were no guns in the house.

They stormed the house like SS troops, and hijacked this little boy.

He's now back in Cuba living under tryanny.

[Thommas]

She said gun control is an important step toward preventing suicide. It works so well in Japan.

Very true. I share in the grief of all parents who have lost children from suicide. However, when I attended grief councelling, my fellow "survivors" related that the use of a gun was but a small part of the devices used to self-terminate.