A Kentucky pastor is encouraging people to attend a service with guns in holsters, enter a raffle to win a free handgun, and be sermonized by operators of gun stores and firing ranges.
In what’s being called an “Open Carry Church Service,” Pastor Ken Pagano of New Bethel Church in Louisville (Yes this is actually happening in the state’s most metropolitan city and not somewhere in Appalachia!) says that he’s just trying to “think outside the box” to grow his flock.