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Faith Leaders Question How to Address Gun Violence in Churches
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The Rev. Rob Schenck believes all life is sacred. He built his ministry and his reputation around anti-abortion activism, preaching from picket lines in front of abortion clinics. Over the past few years, his opinion on abortion hasn't changed, but his sense of calling has shifted. He refocused his ministry on gun violence after a 2013 fatal shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, which is near his home. |
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Uncommon1
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| The churches in the area where I live have found a viable answer to this question. They have hired off duty police officers to sit in the congregation, in places where they have easy access to all aisles, so that they can protect those who may need protection. Not only that, but the officers are receiving a message of hope and grace while they serve. It's a symbiotic relationship that seems to work quite well. |
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Uncommon1
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| The churches in the area where I live have found a viable answer to this question. They have hired off duty police officers to sit in the congregation, in places where they have easy access to all aisles, so that they can protect those who may need protection. Not only that, but the officers are receiving a message of hope and grace while they serve. It's a symbiotic relationship that seems to work quite well. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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