People tend to get overly excited when a Catholic church or ANY church has a full page ad in the bulletin, requesting young men form and join a MILITIA. THAT was not a "mistake", as the church put it. The thing had to be printed up, inserted into the bulletin. More than ONE person made a mistake in Chesterfield.
I completely agree with everything you’ve said here, except that people were overly excited. I think people responded appropriately. It is incredibly alarming and potentially illegal for a church to be organizing an armed militia. The sign-up form stated that militia members could be called upon by the pastor of the church to take up arms. There’s no way one rogue individual went through the entire planning process and moved onto the recruitment phase without consulting the church on this. It’s also ridiculous for the church to imply that they don’t vet any of the ads that are placed in their bulletin before printing.
People tend to get overly excited when a Catholic church or ANY church has a full page ad in the bulletin, requesting young men form and join a MILITIA. THAT was not a "mistake", as the church put it. The thing had to be printed up, inserted into the bulletin. More than ONE person made a mistake in Chesterfield.
I completely agree with everything you’ve said here, except that people were overly excited. I think people responded appropriately. It is incredibly alarming and potentially illegal for a church to be organizing an armed militia.
The sign-up form stated that militia members could be called upon by the pastor of the church to take up arms. There’s no way one rogue individual went through the entire planning process and moved onto the recruitment phase without consulting the church on this. It’s also ridiculous for the church to imply that they don’t vet any of the ads that are placed in their bulletin before printing.