Court won’t hear Ga. Gun lawsuit

[DonViejo]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t overturn a Georgia law banning firearms in churches and other places of worship.

The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from GeorgiaCarry.org, which wanted the justices to overturn a lower court decision upholding Georgia’s law banning guns in churches and other places of worship.

GeorgiaCarry.org argued that the ban applying specifically to places of worship burdens “religiously motivated conduct by regulating how or what a worshipper can do with a weapon while he is worshipping.”

But the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court’s dismissal of the lawsuit brought by GeorgiaCarry and the Rev. Jonathan Wilkins of the Baptist Tabernacle of Thomaston, Ga. The Supreme Court, without comment, refused to reconsider that ruling.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/07/court_wont_hear_ga_gun_lawsuit/

[bongbong]

1. Call the Whammmbulance

Those Delicate Flowers were scared after their pastor described Hell to them in gory detail, and were planning on using their Preciouses to slay satan once they got to their final destination.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Churches are private property.

Shouldn't it be up to them whether people carry on church property or not, and if they carry when not wanted, that's trespassing, right?

[elleng]

4. May be 'private property,' but PUBLIC places of worship,

and government can restrict certain behavior in public places.

For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Atlanta_Motel_v._United_States

[AtheistCrusader]

6. Fair point.

Same reason I can't open a cigar bar here. Illegal statewide. Would have to make it a private club.

(Assuming I could stand cigars)

[Taxee]

3. Mother defending her children

good thing she had a gun in this case.

Jesus defeated satan at the cross and paid for your sin if you let him.

[elleng]

5. Defending her children in CHURCH?

Jesus had a gun, on the cross?

[progressoid]

7. I wish Jesus would come a cleanse us of this plague of trolls we are having.

[solara]

8. Hear! Hear!

[Claybrains]

10. I live 30 mins from where this happened

She shot him in the face 5X. In this case she was acting as a responsible gun owner. Horrible thing it must have been for the children to see though.

[struggle4progress]

12. gotta link?

[Swede Atlanta]

9. What a worshipper can do with a weapon while he is worshipping?

So this reveals the real "god" of these gun owners is the "gun" and not God.

They are worshipping their guns. I don't recall any part of my Protestant liturgy that includes the use of firearms. So their religion must be some kind of gun worshipping.

[struggle4progress]

11. ... Rev. Jonathan Wilkins of the Baptist Tabernacle of Thomaston had argued that the ban

applying specifically to places of worship burdens "religiously motivated conduct by regulating how or what a worshipper can do with a weapon while he is worshipping."

Wilkins, who had said he wanted to have a gun for protection while working in the church office, could not immediately be reached for comment Monday ...

Court won't hear GA lawsuit banning guns in church
By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press
Updated 10:43 am, Monday, January 7, 2013
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Court-won-t-hear-GA-lawsuit-banning-guns-in-church-4172540.php

[rickford66]

13. but

according to Hucklberry Hound, these mass shootings only occur where God is absent. I'm sure he's hanging out in a church and those inside should be quite safe.