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Read the Letter Newtown Clergy Wrote to Congress Pushing for Gun Control: ‘Stop the Slaughter’

Mar. 12, 2013 1:51pm Billy Hallowell

Clergy from Newtown, Conn., have collectively released a letter calling for an assault weapons ban in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that shook their community to its core.

In the letter, addressed to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the faith leaders made their urge for greater gun control measures known. Opening the note by acknowledging that it’s been less than three months since “the unspeakable tragedy” unfolded, the group went on to call for “Congress to pass comprehensive gun violence prevention legislation that will help stop the slaughter.”

Hailing from a diverse pool of theological perspectives (signatories included rabbis, pastors, priests and imams), the religious leaders noted that their faith traditions call them to “protect the weak” and that new legislation would be an avenue for achieving this goal.

Newtown Clergy Write Letter to Congress Pushing for Gun Control: Stop the Slaughter | Sandy Hook

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“To see the rising incidence of gun violence from Chicago to Newtown, Camden to Aurora, Detroit to Tucson — and how that violence particularly targets the young and the poor, especially in America’s urban communities — and yet to refuse to take the steps we know would reduce harm is a violation of religious values so severe that we are compelled to speak out,” the group wrote.

While noting that no actions can bring back the lives lost, the letter goes on to claim that Congress must take action to prevent tragedy. Among the targets of these faith leaders’ attention are: a ban on so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, universal background checks and an “end to gun trafficking.”

An AR-15 is seen for sale on the wall at the National Armory gun store on January 16, 2013 in Pompano Beach, Florida. Credit: Getty Images

“As faith leaders, while we fully support laws that we believe will increase gun safety, we also believe that the larger underlying issue behind violence is spiritual: how we view our obligations to each other in light of our role in God’s creation,” the letter continues.

Read the letter in its entirety, below:

United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senators,

It’s been less than three months since our community experienced the unspeakable tragedy of the murder of children and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

As the clergy leaders of Newtown, joined by clergy colleagues from across the nation, we have witnessed the scourge of gun violence in our neighborhoods, and we call on Congress to pass comprehensive gun violence prevention legislation that will help stop the slaughter. The moral mandate to protect the weak in our care is clear and present in all of our faith traditions. Our varied faith traditions teach us to seek the peace of the city, to love our neighbor, and to cherish human dignity. To see the rising incidence of gun violence from Chicago to Newtown, Camden to Aurora, Detroit to Tucson – and how that violence particularly targets the young and the poor, especially in America’s urban communities – and yet to refuse to take the steps we know would reduce harm is a violation of religious values so severe that we are compelled to speak out.

Nothing any of us do will bring back the victims murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School. As a nation we must do all we can to prevent the next tragedy. We pray that you will vote for meaningful gun violence prevention laws that include a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, enforceable universal background checks, an end to gun trafficking and prosecution of straw purchasers.

After the news crews and cameras leave, after the rest of the nation turns away and resumes their normal routines, it is we who are asked to answer why this happened; to bind up the brokenhearted; and to explain why nothing in Newtown or our many communities will ever be the same again.

As faith leaders, while we fully support laws that we believe will increase gun safety, we also
believe that the larger underlying issue behind violence is spiritual: how we view our obligations to each other in light of our role in God’s creation. We draw from a wellspring of tradition that will spark off a spiritual awakening in America that will transform us into a culture of compassion, reconciliation and civility. As faith leaders, we commit ourselves to fostering a culture of peace to complement and serve as a foundation for any proposed gun legislation.

The slaughter of innocence in Newtown awakened our nation to the tragedy of gun violence
throughout our land and we shall neither slumber nor sleep. Rather, by tireless commitment, Page 2 of 42 loving hearts and the sustaining promise of our many faiths, we believe that Newtown shall be remembered as the bridge to a new and kinder world.

Rabbi Shaul Praver, Congregation Adath Israel of Newtown, CT
Rev. Matthew Crebbin, Newtown Congregational Church, UCC, Newtown, CT
Rev. Kathleen Adams-Shepherd, Trinity Episcopal Church, Newtown, CT
Chaplain Eman Beshtawii, Al Hedaya Islamic Center, Newtown, CT
Azeez Bhavnagarwala, Al Hedaya Islamic Center, Newtown, CT
Rev. Mel Kawakami, Newtown United Methodist Church, Newtown, CT
Rev. Leo E. McIlrath, Lutheran Home, Southbury, CT
Khatib Mohamed El Safty, Al Hedaya Islamic Center, Newtown, CT
Rev. Jane Sibley, Newtown United Methodis tChurch, Newtown, CT
Rev. Jim Solomon, New Hope Community Church, Newtown, CT
Rev. Janice Touloukian, Newtown Congregational Church, UCC, Newtown, CT
Monsignor Robert Weiss, St Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, Newtown, CT

In this Thursday, July 26, 2012 file photo, an AR-15 style rifle is displayed at the Firing-Line indoor range and gun shop, in Aurora, Colo. Credit: AP

More than 4,000 faith leaders across America signed on to the letter as well, offering support to the Newtown clergy in their quest for increased gun control measures (the complete list of religious leaders is here).

PICO, a network of faith-based community groups, and Sojourners, progressive Pastor Jim Wallis’ organization, were involved in having the letter repurposed as an advertisement that appeared in the Des Moines Register on Monday.

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shorelineliz
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:24pm
And then the Imams said:

Yes. Disarm them. I mean: Just give us those AR-15′s. We shall turn them into plowshares by marking them up 50% and selling them to a Middle Eastern middle man we know of who makes plowshares out of AR-15′s for a living and is so poor he lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and his wife can only afford a little Channel and Dolce Gabbana and Versace. But, yes, we will ship them through our own drone program, I mean, cheaply and if you just all turn over your AR-!5′s to us we will surely dispose of them peacefully and I can assure you that yes, we love Jesus too, and of course, though he was a Jew, the descendant of pigs and dogs, we still love him, but getting back to weapons, we will disarm, I mean take all these weapons off your hands, now don’t trouble yourselves you Western Decadent Sons of Satan, I mean all you lovely Americans and peace, love brotherhood, and inter =faith dialogue, and yes, we can all just get along, if you bow to Allah, and did I say that out loud? Oh , my bad. I mean Allahu Akbar and oh my goodness, did I say that out loud? and yes, Interfaith dialogue and one ness and peace, and love, and groovy and no i don’t believe in Taquiyya and Abrogation unless you mean, I mean, in the strictest sense of Jihad, it is a struggle but, of course, no, peace, love, brotherhood. Can you A-holes just turn over your AR-15′s now so my brother’s wife in Riyadh can make the Channel sale going on right now? Amen and Al-Akbar!

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- 00100111
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:46pm
  How very interesting these “clergy” notice the “rising gun violence”. ALL stats show “gun violence” is decreasing at a fast rate. More people are killed with cars, hammers, hands and feet than with guns. Methinks these “clergy” should focus more on their congregation and stop being politically active. I thought libs hated it when religious leaders try to influence their flock politically? Oh, yeah, that’s right…these are liberal “clergy”. They’re not bound by those rules.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:13pm
  If our clergy were really doing their jobs there would be less killing. As it is, they’re too political and secularly self-serving.
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:25pm
  To the clergy of Newtown…stay in church and mind your own business…..
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:31pm
  Clergy….hmmmm
  Tell us if God didn’t not want us to have guns why did he give us the ability to make them. Someone tell this quote unquote religious clergiman that you don’t stop sin by removing the temptation you stop it by changing the man not the surrounding.
  And you don’t stop gun violence by disarmiong the lawful you stop it by punishing the unlawful.
  Here a crazy idea hang those that commit these act when there is no doubt of their action no trial just ahnk them. And those when there isn’t 100% proof at first should have their day in court…If found guilty hang them as well. No more lifers if you murder someone in America it’s a one way express ticket to the ultimate judge of man. Don’t allow these people to continue to affect society MAKE EXAMPLES OUT OF THEM INSTEAD
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:47pm
  Guuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnn Criiiiiime…….Say it slow, let it roll off your tongue….it’s like liquid evil in your mouth…. GUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNN…CRIIIIIIIIME…….Mmmmmmmmmm…
  
  We’ve finally evolved beyond personal responsibility, Beyond such trivial things as calling out the perpetrator of the crime. No longer will we say “Gang Violence, Domestic Violence, or even Murder….Finally the GUN! is recognized for the evil it is.
  
  Who would have thought that a simple mechnical tool would evolve into the first sentient being. A thing of metal yet possessing a will of it’s own, to dominate and control the mind of it’s wielder, and make him commit atrocities!
  
  I’m so pleased that people are finally waking up to these monstrous instruments of evil that have been controlling our gun loving culture for so long.
  
  Finally we will see justice!
  
  /sarcasm off.
  
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- brother_ed
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:55pm
  I suggest looking at the signatories of the letter to see if any church leaders in your area have signed this letter.
  
  The list is available by clicking on the red “released a letter” phrase in the article.
  
  I would be interested in knowing anything about these individuals and/or the churches they lead.
  
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- Red Meat
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:56pm
  The majority of the clergy in this country are devout communists. This should be no surprise to anyone with half a brain.
  
  For the Christian clergymen, St. Peter carried a sword.
  
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- nightmare must end
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:14pm
  50 Million dead after roe v wade.
  1.2 million dead a year.
  If they want to stop the killing, let us start there.
  I believe GOD allows for self defense not murder of the defenseless
  
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- mrunner
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:59pm
  They state they mean to “protect the weak”. I don’t understand how you do that by disarming the good people who can protect the weak.
  
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- Oknowwhat
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:13pm
  So very true.
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:25am
  I live in a small southern town. A retired minister moved in across the street from me who is very Liberal and a Democrat. I know this from his Obama/ Biden and co-exist bumper stickers..nice guy and we talk occasionally. My truck’s bumper stickers reflect my political views also…NRA (2013), Miss me yet, Mitt, Romney/ Ryan and An armed society is a polite society. A couple month’s ago he stopped and asked me if it would be ok if he and I could have a conversation about our political views…I said sure but was his plan to try to change mine or listen to why I have the view’s I do…he said…well lets just see were the conversation goes….I politely told him “look, I like you and your a good neighbor but after we have this conversation I can promise you will not like me…we never had the conversation…
  
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- NONCENTS
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:49am
  My thoughts exactly
  
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jay1975
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:24pm
Man, these guys don’t get it. Jesus is all about guns and ammo. How insulting that church leaders would dare support the word of God? WWJS

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- Albrks
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:43pm
  You and Encinom must attend the same church, where is it written that Christians should be defenseless?
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:44pm
  These people do not support the Word of God. They are Liberals. And Democrats.They infiltrated the churches years ago. They are on a “political agenda” with the church and USE the Bible to their “political ends.” This is their REAL AGENDA. They “make up” all kinds of stuff about Jesus. That he was and is anti gun and anti self defense even though in Jesus’ time there were NO FIREARMS. They are all graduates of hippy schools (Berkeley) or East Coast Seminaries (Harvard and Yale) which have turned Jesus into some kind of peace loving hippy guru rabbi teacher who wouldn’t hurt a fly and on and on it goes with THEIR VAIN IMAGINATIONS and FANTASIES and UTOPIAN WORLD.
  
  The LORD of the UNIVERSE expects you to defend yourself, your wife, your property, your land, your children, your country. He did not put you on this earth to roll over and die and let people wack your heads off, or your hands, or stone you, like the IMAMA”S Religion.
  
  These are all LIBERAL WACK JOBS!
  
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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:45pm
  Jesus Christ killed 180,000 Assyrians in one night.
  
  2 chronicals 32:21 And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed every mighty warrior, commander and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned in shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own children killed him there with the sword.
  
  When he returns, he comes as the Lion of Judah, Lord of the Armies, as a Soldier.
  
  Revalation 19:16 And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” 17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds which fly in midheaven, “Come, assemble for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all men, both free men and slaves, and small and great.” 19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.
  
  Jesus Christ is very comfortable with weaponry.
  
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- REPUBLICANINCALI
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:09pm
  If church leaders were more involved with the people instead of trying to stop guns, maybe there would be less violence.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:16pm
  Any one who preaches that the path to God must be walked in the chains of the Atheistic God: The State, aren’t men of God, rather agents of The State. Likely would be the same “clergy” who would preach that the Israelites should have stayed slaves to Ramses.
  
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- itshamertime
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:42pm
  Beachmaster- So is the Lord- Luke 22:36-38 KJV.
  
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- brother_ed
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:49pm
  @REPUBLICANINCALI
  
  Interesting observation.
  
  Christianity espouses self-regulation.
  
  It appears as if these clergy have failed in teaching their flocks and are now asking the government to do their job.
  
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- MDECKER
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:59pm
  These are not Shepherds, they are really sheep.
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:27pm
  These Clergy side with the same Gay Muslim president who believes in the Right to Abort life……That is their downfall….and always will be.
  
  Its a matter of universal control under a dictatorship and not a sitting president, this is his own agenda and nothing more than that, if it had been more then he would never have believed in the Right to Abort life.
  
  The Clergy have their own internal problems with their Church……Any Church who has Jerry Springer as a contributor has really really big problems……..I will leave it at that.
  
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showmerancher
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:21pm
It shows an absolutely stunning ignorance bordering on treason to usurp the Constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms of the law-abiding as punishment for the sins of criminals.

It is certainly and significantly more the fault of a failure in leadership of these “moral leaders” in teaching morality in their own back yards than it is MY fault. Yet they seek to curtail MY rights and freedoms? With that kind of “logic” there is no wonder that they can’t lead their own flock, and that their flocks are diminishing. Y’all keep turning the “other cheek” and casting a blind eye to reality and the true underlying causes, and all you will guarantee are more funerals.

These folks should be ashamed of themselves. At least as ashamed as we are of them.

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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:33pm
  I would bet that all these Clery are not for the Death Penalty.
  
  Numbers 35:30 ‘If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the evidence of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 31 ‘Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.
  
  Failure to invoke Justice is what has gotten us here. It is not because of guns.
  
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- DeOppressoLiber
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:34pm
  How much damage could a US Roman Catholic Pope and Dear Leader do to our liberties if it comes to be.
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:13pm
  So when the Muslims come for these Clergy men…..Who will protect them in their darkest hour?…….Will they rely on the Gay Muslim President for protection??
  
  Christians need to think their options through on this, these Clergy men have enough problems as it is…..This is why southern baptist have the upper hand, these clergy act like God and not a servant of God.
  
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Beachmastermax
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:21pm
They should have their tax exemption revolked.

It would be easy to get many Clery to sign a letter pleading for the government to uphold the God given right denoted in the second amendment. You can bet that if that was done the Libs would be calling for their tax exemption to be revolked.

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- DoseofReality
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:25pm
  All churches should be taxed…..I agree 100%. Southern churches are very political……they should be taxed just as these churches should be.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:49pm
  Northern, progressive churches are just as political. They just fit your narrative, so you give them a pass. You’re a hypocrite, all of us see it.
  
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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:50pm
  I may agree with you, if tax exemptions were taken from all organizations, such as the Sierra Club, etc.
  
  Even in that case, I would say the Sierra club is political and should be taxed, whereas taxing people for getting together and worshiping is a disgrace.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:28pm
  010001 – hey dumb*ass – I said ALL churches should be taxed – are you a moron?
  
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encinom
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:21pm
Either you are a christian or you are a gun nut you must choose. Either you seek to protect your fellow Americans or you are paranoid reject living in fear of the outside world, clutching your gun as a child clutches a security blanket.

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:36pm
  What an unfair depiction of Christian and “gun”! You can be a Christian and it is CHRISTIANS who fought Hitler and Hirohito and made YOU safe in these United States. My Dad owned a hunting rifle and a handgun and I can assure you he was a Christian and Not a gun nut. You can be a Christian who responsibly owns and uses guns. Maybe you should define who exactly is “clinging to their guns like blankies?”
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:54pm
  You know nothing of Christianity. Christ was not a hippie pacifist. We know you are nothing but a scared little child, afraid of his own shadow. We used to care about you, at least on some level, to try to save you. Now…, now you are the enemy, now I’ll increase that trigger pressure one more pound for you, and when it is over I won’t miss a wink of sleep.
  
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- Triple7
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:27pm
  Now now bed wetting useful idiot troll. Your handlers tell you to deal in absolutes but you cornered yourself.
  
  Defense of liberty. Defense of the weak. Defending yourself from injury. Owning a weapon to do so. It is a God given right. Those who turn a blind eye(See Holocaust) are no less evil then the perpetrators.
  
  This you know but do not care for you are a godless bed wetting useful idiot troll for the Neo Bolsheviks
  
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- STREBOR
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:22pm
  Those who beat their swords into plow shares will plow for those who did not!
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:09pm
  ENCINOM…
  
  I am a 39 yr old Catholic from Newtown that personally knows teachers and parents of students from Sandy Hook Elementary.
  I don’t own a gun.
  I’ve never even held a gun.
  But i FULLY support the 2nd Amendment.
  How dare you use these kids to further your own ignorant agenda.
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:17pm
In the big picture on gun control we are looking at the Libs chipping away at our American Constitutional human rights, one piece at a time. The latest outrage that barely passed a Senate Judiciary panel (10 Dems to 8 Reps), is “chipping away” with a Universal Background Check for private sales. This is intended to provide a federal conduit for the eventual confiscation of all firearms in civilian hands. The Libs deny this truth but we know that they are liars and will stop at nothing to advance their dark agendas. Watch your back and vote in 2014.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:30pm
  So the Clergy thinks it is OK for a woman to fight on the front lines in battle with a gun in her hand, yet it is not OK for a woman to own a gun here in the USA for protection from a rapist……God is watching you know……Women are watching as well.
  
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Ruprecht
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:15pm
There are dumb people in all walks of life. That includes the clergy.

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- CatB
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:35pm
  Amen
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:20pm
  The Clergy side with the countries first Gay Muslim president…..and we wonder why the Vatican has soooooo many problems….
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:23pm
  Ride…what the F are you talking about? Gay Muslim? You are freaking insane – or so blinded by hatred you cant see the idiocy of your own statements.
  
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DaveyCrockett
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:15pm
Well now, all you “good” religious leaders; you want to infringe on my 2A right; how about we ask Congress to limit your 1A rights first since more people in the history of mankind have been killed in the name of their respective “gods” for the greater good!! let’s place limits on how, when, and where you can practice, preach, pontificate, and spew your !!!!

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:21pm
  Oh, I most certainly agree. Not all religion, not all clergy. Just them, their individual churches. They want my rights, how about we take away theirs?
  
  Bunch of idiots being used as the tools they are by people who are clearly far more intelligent than they’ll ever be.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:51pm
  I agree Ghost…
  
  worth noting though- my Catholic friends in Newtown tell me that the writers of this letter wanted all seven of the priests at St. Rose to sign this letter but six of them refused.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:16pm
  It doesn’t work that way, not if we all want to be free.
  
  You see, what you advocate is the same tyranny humankind has lived under for most of its existence.
  
  One group threatens another’s rights. They go to war. Which ever one wins strips the rights of the loser.
  
  Over and over again we enslave each other.
  
  How is your desire to strip them of their rights any better than their desire to strip you of yours?
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:38pm
  TERMYT… i think you’re missing the sarcasm here.
  
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- Strider26
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:08pm
  Actually atheists have killed more people in history than any church group. While I disagree vehemently with theses mental midgets claiming to represent Christ…..that has nothing to do with death tolls. If you look at the truly major hitters when it comes to mass murder, look at Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Hitler, etc, etc. Even the so called “mass murderers” that are being used to sell this gun control garbage are almost totally liberal democrats…who tend to be somewhat less than dedicated Christians…..
  
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kangaroo
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:15pm
Isn’t an islamic church siding with a christian church an oxymoron, I thought they just blew up christian churches with bombs strapped to kids. And I bet those christian pastors will the first to be praying to god they had a dang gun when a nutter with a gun turns up to cause havoc. On the bright side you can aleast have have a chance to not to get shot cause you can see the priick coming. Getting blown up naa not so much.

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Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:14pm
Simply remove the word gun and this sounds like a great resaon to stop abortions. “Our varied faith traditions teach us to seek the peace of the city, to love our neighbor, and to cherish human dignity. To see the rising incidence of gun violence from Chicago to Newtown, Camden to Aurora, Detroit to Tucson – and how that violence particularly targets the young and the poor, especially in America’s urban communities – and yet to refuse to take the steps we know would reduce harm is a violation of religious values so severe that we are compelled to speak out.”

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dosdelgados
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:14pm
“and how that violence particularly targets the young and the poor, especially in America’s urban communities”

a) Newtown, Aurora, Littleton…not exactly poor communities.
b) when it comes to these “slaughters” young = defenseless.

Watch the massacres increase after more gun laws are in place and the bad guys are emboldened.

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Sargeking
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:11pm
We still haven’t seen one picture of the so-called Bushmaster rifle. The shell casings at the scene were reported as all S&W .40 and 9mm caliber. The AR-15 fires .223 rounds. A Bushmmaster can also handle the more powerful 5.56mm. The difference is in the ballistics. The .223 is a Remington and many 5.56mm are military grade bullets from Lake City, MO. At this juncture, for all we know the serial killer used a big knife. Can you imagine the fallout if it is proven that “Sandy Hook Line and Sinker” was made-up by the Libs to demonize guns? Don’t put anything past them and watch your back!

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- DoseofReality
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:13pm
  sure, it was all made up – those parents are all lying, the volunteer repsonders are lying, the police are lying, the fbi is lying…you are such an unbelievable *sshole….or just so brainwashed. Why dont you come up here to CT, go to newtown and tell them they made it up…ill be there and we will see what happens to you
  
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- Sargeking
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:24pm
  Look at the numbers (if you can get past your name calling first). Three funerals for 26 killed? Obviously you believe everything you’re being spoon fed by the lamebrain, mainstream media. Some of us think, and determine the facts through the truth and deductive reasoning. You’re all about anger and hate, as referenced by your rant. What you truly know about “Sandy Hook Line and Sinker” isn’t worth knowing.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:00pm
  SARGE….
  
  “Three funerals for 26 killed?”
  Where are you getting those numbers?
  St. Rose was holding multiple funerals per DAY for a week straight… and that is a FACT.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:30pm
  Sarge – your freaking insane – i love close by – there were more than 3 funerals – what world do you live in? What has happened to you in your life where you are soo completely f*cked up?
  
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denkat56
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:11pm
Just enforce the laws to keep guns out of criminals, mental patients hands. Do your back ground checks. And keep the federal government out of any decisions about guns. Punish the criminals, don’t let them out of prison, execute the murderers, and rapist.

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DeavonReye
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:09pm
Where’s their letter asking for all alcoholic bottles with an alcohol % greater than 5% be banned? Far more people die from drunk driving, but you don’t see a call for that!

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- CatB
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:36pm
  Ban CARS!
  
  I am so sick of those who want to ban guns using the bodies of children who were in a GUN FREE ZONE and not able to be protected from a crazy person.
  
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Uechi
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:08pm
What hypocrites, more people have died in the last 1000 years in the name of and because of misguided religion then will ever be killed by legally owned civilian firearms. This is what happens when you think with emotion and not reason. Where’s the letter to Congress from these morons on the hudreds of thousands of unborn babies aborted every year in this country because they had the audacity to be conceived. Once again hypocrites!

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Albrks
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:07pm
Also curious that this is exactly the same talking points the progressives are using to disarm Americans. I wonder if it was written by OFA?

“We pray that you will vote formeaningful gun violence prevention laws that include a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, enforceable universal background checks, an end to gun trafficking and prosecution of straw purchasers.”

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:06pm
Where’s the letter where they ask Congress and Obama to quit supporting the murder of 800,000 babies annually?

Oh, this is just about politics and ideology, not lives. My bad.

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shorelineliz
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:06pm
What is wrong with this picture? a woman in a priests vestments with a priests “stole” signaling his authority in AFrican fabric? Okay. I think we just saw the Unitarian Universalist Church in this photo. I can’t wait until Father-Mother-Brother-Sister-jesus-god- flies by on his unicorn with fairy dust and magical Lucky Charms.

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Exidor
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:04pm
“we believe that Newtown shall be remembered as the bridge to a new and kinder world.”

Maybe in Fantasyland……

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termyt
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:03pm
So, your idea of protecting the weak is by disarming them and not their predators?

Do you protect sheep by removing the ram’s antlers? By removing the teeth of the sheep dog? The wolf and the lion have their weapons and they don’t look at your laws to see if they can keep their teeth and claws.

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truthnstuff
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:01pm
Another bunch of pandering A-holes looking for a media moment.

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- DoseofReality
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:04pm
  Sure – thats all these people are looking for – media spotlight – they are trying to stop the outrageous gun violence in this country. They might be misguided, but to say that they just want media attention makes you an *sshole.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:06pm
  “clergy” should be striken from the title and article and replaced with what you said.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:59pm
  Yes, they do want media attention, Dose. Libs like you and your ilk love dancing on the graves of children for a political agenda. Yes, I will come to CT and say that to your face. No, you won’t do anything but cry like a **** liberal in your little skinny jeans, hippie beanie, and thick rimmed glasses.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:33pm
  010001 – Ok buddy, enjoy your miserable angry life….you people are sick, sick individuals
  
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matinva
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:00pm
Why did they send this letter to Congress? When was the last time a Congressman (or woman) killed someone with a gun? Shouldn’t they have addressed the letter to criminals? I guess you can’t fix stupid, after all.

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encinom
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:00pm
Either you are a gun nut and worship at the NRA’s altar or you are a Christian, its your choice. Either you ignore the deaths of your fellow Americans or you seek to stop it.

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- termyt
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:25pm
  You’re right Encinom!
  
  In order for us to protect ourselves, let’s drop all our weapons. What could possibly go wrong? It worked for the Jews in Nazi Germany. It worked for Christians in Japan. It worked for Ukrainians in the USSR, Buddhist Monks under the Khmer Rouge, American Colonists under King George…
  
  Oh wait, all of those disarmed populaces were murdered relentlessly except the American Colonists – the only ones in that list that were not disarmed.
  
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galaxie_man
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 1:58pm
Continuing the politicization of a tragic event. I live in CT and am on Sandy Hook overload. Every time a news story comes on TV, I change the channel. I am sick of all these people standing on a platform built of the coffins of dead kids and teachers, to spew their toxic rhetoric. You don’t like the 2nd Amendment and what it stands for, there is a process to repeal it. USE IT….OR SHUT THE EFF UP!!

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- encinom
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:18pm
  Another small man, another gun nut unable to handle the truth, the truth is that his hands are awashed in the blood of children. Boo Hoo.
  
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AKHDPETE
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 1:58pm
Seems to be alot of muslim churches listed, strange.

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