Pastor Kirkwood proudly displayed his chocolate Glock on the awards table surrounded by “insensitive” cupcakes mounted with toy soldiers. via Facebook
Local news reports
The Grace-Gospel Fellowship Church in Bensenville, Illinois held its first “Second Amendment Sunday” this past weekend where children were encouraged to create gun-shaped pastries and “combat” cupcakes, a strategy aimed at countering the wave of anti-gun paranoia sweeping the country.
The Grace-Gospel Fellowship Church in Bensenville, Illinois held its first “Second Amendment Sunday” this past weekend where children were encouraged to create gun-shaped pastries and “combat” cupcakes, a strategy aimed at countering the wave of anti-gun paranoia sweeping the country.
The church even held a contest for the best gun-shaped pastries, dubbed the “assault pop-tart challenge,” where they awarded gift cards and toy “assault rifles” to the children who created the best-looking gun tarts, “as determined by The Parson.”Although I could not agree more that the recent hysteria over non-realistic-looking toy guns is wrong, this is not the answer.
Pastor John Kirkwood tells Clash Daily one of the toy firearms he handed out as a prize was labeled with the term “high capacity,” terminology currently being used to demonize a broad spectrum of firearm magazines: “You know, I stood in the toy aisle for a good half an hour to choose just the right one and it turned out to be the biggest Nerf gun that I could find, and the kicker – the box was marked ‘semi-auto’ and ‘high capacity,’ so we named that one ‘the Feinstein.’”
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I like the way to encourages kids to make ‘assault pop-tarts’.
ReplyDeleteAwww, Mike doesn't like it when the other side copies the liberal playbook and holds for shock events to ridicule of his side.
ReplyDeleteWhat do I think - I think there's a bunches of real stupid sick fuckers out there1
ReplyDeleteBlessed are the Peacemakers? Absolutely. Make mine a .45 Colt with a 5 1/2 inch barrel.
ReplyDeleteNote, Mikeb, that this is happening in Illinois, a state with strict gun control. The message should be clear, but I'll tell you anyway. Much of America won't tolerate your proposals.
America is growing tired of your sedition. Most Americans are mortified at the fact that the government, which is entrusted with their safety, actually allows mere civilians to own lethal weapons.
DeleteGreg, you "much of America" is wishful thinking. You guys are a dwindling minority which is more and more being seen as the fanatics you really are.
DeleteMikeb, are you admitting to being Black Cap, et al.? The more you agree with him, the sillier you sound.
DeleteIt's worth a chuckle. While I wouldn't have endorsed doing it (my reasons for which probably aren't germane to this discussion), I certainly understand the feelings that probably led to the decision. And, of course, given that pesky Bill of Rights, the folks at that church are free to do this if they so choose.
ReplyDeleteWhat would your reasons be?
DeletePlease see "aren't germane", above.
DeleteLOL. So Mike, who never tires of pushing the buttons of those that support gun rights, just can't stand it when someone pushes his?
ReplyDeleteWhere did I say I "can't stand it." I simply said I don't think this is the answer to a problem that I agree exists, the hysterical responses of some to the non-realistic toy guns.
DeleteThe pastor is doing nothing more than glorifying an out-of-touch gun culture, and using small children to do it. Sickening.
ReplyDeleteBoo Hoo! Only Baldr and Mike get to use children and shock tactics! It's not FAIR when others do it!
DeleteFeel free to feel sick in the privacy of your own home, but don't imagine that you'll be welcome in the public sphere.
DeleteThis ties in with the post I was working on earlier - Mike may have seen the advance notice on some of the cookie cutters, cake pans, etc. - on gun porn with food.
ReplyDeleteBecause given the number of kids who are killed by guns every year, the last thing they should be doing is shit like this.
We have some very sick people in our epic failure of a gun culture, and this guy is just one more -- along with a few sick 'foodies'.
Churches like this really don't deserve tax exemption.
Sacrifice one right, sacrifice them all? Fortunately, Dog Gone, you don't get to decide on the tax exempt status of churches--or on anything else of consequence, it would appear, given your constant whining.
DeleteYou can't just disagree with them, huh? Gotta get the government involved.
DeleteBoo Hoo! Dog Gone can be as uncivil, insulting, and vile as she wants, going so far as to make fun of recently murdered gun rights activists before their bodies are cool, but if we make fun of recent events--like the school that threw out cupcakes because they had plastic army men on them, it offends her to no end. Pull up your big girl panties and get over it.
DeleteAlso: Dog Gone suggests pulling tax exemption from churches because of their free speech. Churches should be tax exempt, not because they are granted immunity by the government, but because they are churches. Human history shows that we don't need popes and preachers running state affairs, and we shouldn't have the state running churches.
If the lessons of history weren't enough, we have the First Amendment's protections of the practice of religion and of free speech. Revoking a tax exemption for this type of speech would violate both provisions and be utterly unconstitutional.
Hopefully, if anyone in the IRS decided to try to act on Dog Gone's recommendation, it would be found Unconstitutional by the courts--hopefully we are not so far gone that they would be on board with such tyranny. However, if this wasn't the case, it would mark the end of the protection of the separation between church and state and a true crossing of the line into the silencing of religious and political speech by the government.
Don't kick up hornets nests like that DG. You won't like the outcome if you get your way. Nobody will.
TS, in Dog Gone's view, the government exists to enforce her preferences.
DeleteThey're pop tarts ferchrissakes. I don't even wanna think about your frickin hysteria if some kid spelled 'gun' in his bowl of Alpha Bits.
ReplyDeleteSEEK HELP!
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