Pfleger is taking aim against gun violence and using the church to do so. He is flying the flag outside his parish upside down, a sign of distress used only in extreme emergencies. He says the city of Chicago is in just such an emergency.
"It's an epidemic," says Pfleger. "I've had four funerals of young children so far this year. A 13-year-old going to the store, a 15-year-old killed on a bus. All gun [crimes]."........
The report, and video of, above follows a report from the previous day, below, about a preacher allowing the parishioners of his church to bear arms during church services.
The Right to Bear Arms Heats Up
They clutched their Bibles and wore their handguns on their hips at New Bethel Church in Louisville, Ky., after Rev. Ken Pagano encouraged parishioners to pack both their Bibles and heat to celebrate their right to bear arms -- even in a church sanctuary......
"To have someone bring a gun into that kind of space and to lift it up as if it were a symbol of goodness is horrific," says Rev. Serene Jones, president of the Union Theological Seminary........
As is further stated in the Video, if church's, or any house of worship, allow this that church ceases to be a church!
America in the 21st century, heading into the 19th, advancing backwards, rapidly, while the rest of the planet continues trying to move forward!
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