{"id":181263,"date":"2016-08-17T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/17\/the-nefarious-ammosexual-agenda-forces-its-way-into-our-houses-of-worship\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T23:30:00","slug":"the-nefarious-ammosexual-agenda-forces-its-way-into-our-houses-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/17\/the-nefarious-ammosexual-agenda-forces-its-way-into-our-houses-of-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nefarious Ammosexual Agenda Forces Its Way into Our Houses of Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Oregon, a girl’s softball team in Lake Oswego raffled off an AR-15 to fund a team trip.*<\/sup><\/p>\n

A pastor there did not like this, and when he found that tickets were already sold, he bought a large number, in the hopes of getting the weapon, and destroying it.<\/p>\n

Well, he won the raffle\/rifle, and announced his plans, and the gun fondler crowd started issuing death threats and demanding his prosecution<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Rev. Jeremy Lucas brought an olive branch to a gun fight recently, hoping for a mellow outcome. It began when he won a semi-automatic rifle in a local raffle, then revealed his plan to destroy it and was mostly congratulated for his stand.<\/span>

<\/span>But the 44-year-old Episcopal priest\u2019s token attempt to take another gun off the streets did little to keep the peace. In response to his gesture, Lucas got threats and demands for his arrest.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>Lucas grew up in Alabama owning and shooting guns. But he sees the AR-15, America\u2019s most popular rifle, as a danger to society. It is one of the weapons of choice among today\u2019s mass shooters, from Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 to the shooting last month of four teens, three fatally, by another teen near Seattle.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>When news about his win and plans to destroy the gun began to spread, Lucas got Facebook thank-yous from relatives of some of the Sandy Hook victims and encouragement from hundreds of others.<\/span>

<\/span>Donors replenished the $3,000 he\u2019d used from the church coffers and then some. Bishop Michael J. Hanley, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, sent his huzzas as well. \u201cIt was a wonderful thing and actually filled me with a certain amount of glee that he could pull it off,\u201d Hanley said in a statement. \u201cProbably more of us need to act in this way, jumping into the unknown consequences of doing good deeds.\u201d <\/span>

<\/span>But not everyone saw it that way.<\/span>

<\/span>Some unhappy commentators suggested Lucas had violated Oregon\u2019s new gun law by failing to have a background check conducted on a parishioner to whom he\u2019d given the weapon for safekeeping.<\/span>

<\/span>Then there were the \u201ccritics and trolls\u201d on social media and on news websites, Lucas wrote on his blog, \u201clobbing their hate and vitriol.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are lots of responsible gun owners out there, and then there is the Ammosexual contingent, who shouldn’t be trusted with a butter knife.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>I know what you are thinking, “In Oregon, you must be kidding?” That’s because you don’t know that Oregon in the 1920s was the most KKK dominated state in the nation.<\/span>\u2020<\/sup>
\u2020<\/sup>Oregon’s original constitution literally banned black people from the territory<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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