Texas Church Shooter Reportedly Obtained Gun through System Error

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Texas Church Shooter Reportedly Obtained Gun through System Error


Texas Church Shooter Reportedly Obtained Gun through System Error


The Air Force did not submit records that would have barred the man who opened fire on a church in Texas from purchasing a gun.


The Air Force said this week that former airman Devin Patrick Kelley should have been prohibited from buying guns because of his criminal record.


Kelly was court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his then-wife and stepson. He fractured his stepson’s skull. After conviction, he spent a year in confinement at a Naval facility.


Under federal law, that conviction should have barred him from legally owning a firearm, but that record was never entered into the proper federal database.


“Initial information indicates that Kelley’s domestic violence offense was not entered into the National Criminal Information Center database by the Holloman Air Force Base Office of Special Investigations,” said Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek in an email.


Kelley shot and killed 26 people over the weekend at a small church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. He had an assault-style rifle and two handguns.


According to federal officials, Kelley bought four guns in the last four years. Academy Sports & Outdoors, where Kelley bought some of his guns, says it ran a background check on him, but he passed.


“The Service will also conduct a comprehensive review of Air Force databases to ensure records in other cases have been reported correctly. The Air Force has also…

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Billy Graham’s Grandson Boz Tchividjian No Longer Identifies as ‘Evangelical’: Report

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(Photo: Courtesy of H. Tchividjian)Basyle “Boz” Tchividjian, executive director of Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment, known by the acronym of GRACE, and grandson of the Rev. Billy Graham.

Boz Tchividjian, the grandson of world renowned evangelist Billy Graham, is reportedly no longer identifying himself with the term “evangelical,” joining many others who have abandoned the term in the wake of the election of President Donald Trump.

“I don’t identify myself with that term any more,” Tchividjian, an activist who speaks out against sexual abuse in the church, was quoted as saying in a Nov. 3 article focusing on “exvangelicals” published by the British news outlet The Guardian.

“Words matter,” Tchividjian said. “And ‘evangelical’ isn’t like Baptist or Episcopalian, which can be clearly defined. The minute you use that term to someone, “you’re defined by how they interpret it.”

As 2016 presidential election exit polls showed that 81 percent of people who identified as white evangelicals voted for Trump and as Trump has done much in his first year in office to appeal to the conservative evangelical vote, the word “evangelical” has increasingly become associated with the Trump presidency.

Considering that “evangelical” a word that most…

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Happy Birthday, Daddy! .

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Today, Nov. 7, 2017, my father turns 99 years of age. And thus he enters into his 100th year. I think I can speak for my entire family when I say we are all amazed … and very thankful … that he is still with us. My mother moved to heaven, the place Jesus called our Father’s house, 10 years ago. And I, for one, never imagined Daddy would continue to live without her, much less outlive her for such a lengthy period of time. What a treasure it has been to have these last 10 years to enjoy his…

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Poll supports restrictions on abortion

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Poll supports restrictions on abortion

Seventy two per cent of those questioned in the ComRes poll for the Christian campaign group, CARE said they supported the existing laws which require the signatures of two doctors before an abortion can be approved.

It comes as MPs debate relaxing the restrictions to make abortion more freely available.

Last month marked the 50th anniversary since the 1967 Abortion Act, with almost 9 million abortions taken place since it was introduced in Great Britain.

The polling highlights only 8 per cent thought abortion should be allowed if a woman feels her family is big enough and just 4 per cent if a woman feels that continuing with the pregnancy would get in the way of an educational or employment opportunity.

Only 12 per cent of people thought it should be legal to terminate an unborn child with Downs Syndrome which is currently legal up till birth. Preventing abortion in these contexts would require a tightening of the law.

The Christian campaign group, CARE’s Chief Executive, Nola Leach told Premier that MPs should take notice of the poll and the views of the public.

She said: “My message and CARE’s message to MPs talking about this issue is, get your facts right, get the information from women who have actually been through these experiences and know that it is a very painful decision that they weren’t perhaps given the time and the space to make their decision.”

She went on to say there is clearly still a mainstream view in society that abortion needs to be…

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How Getting These Candidates Elected in 2018 Is Crucial for America’s Future .

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Do you want to be part of a movement to get pro-Trump candidates elected to Congress? Six months ago, I publicly called for “an army of pro-Trump activists” all over the nation to run for seats in the House or the Senate, and it is actually happening.

In this article, I am going to share with you 24 of the very best pro-Trump candidates who are running for office in 2018, and we hope to continue to grow this list over time. In fact, we have given this list a permanent…

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Resident who shot Texas gunman says God gave him the skills to do so

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Resident who shot Texas gunman says God gave him the skills to do so

Devin Patrick Kelly fled the scene after opening fire at a church in Sutherland Springs.

Stephen Willeford explained how he was able to confront the killer.

He said: “I’m no hero – I am not.

“I think my God – my Lord – protected me and gave me the skills to do what needed to be done. And I just wish I could have got there faster.”

The US Airforce has admitted it failed to pass on information about the Texas gunman.

Patrick Kelly’s history of domestic assault should have prevented him from owning guns.

But the 26 year-old was able to buy a rifle just last year.

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Atheist Immigrant Sues to Remove ‘So Help Me God’ from Citizenship Oath

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Atheist Immigrant Sues to Remove ‘So Help Me God’ from Citizenship Oath


Atheist Immigrant Sues to Remove ‘So Help Me God’ from Citizenship Oath


A French immigrant and atheist who is living in Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, arguing that the phrase “so help me God,” which is included in the oath to obtain U.S. citizenship, violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.


“By its very nature, an oath that concludes ‘so help me God’ is asserting that God exists,” says the lawsuit, as reported by The Christian Post. “Accordingly, the current oath violates the first 10 words of the Bill of Rights, and to participate in a ceremony which violates that key portion of the United States Constitution is not supporting or defending the Constitution as the oath demands.”


Olga Paule Perrier-Bilbo, who is filing the lawsuit, claims that the oath is prohibiting her from becoming an American citizen because it violates her religious beliefs, or lack thereof.


Perrier-Bilbo is filing the lawsuit despite the fact that she was given the choice of using an alternative phrase in a private citizenship ceremony. She argues that “so help me God” shouldn’t be included in the U.S. citizenship oath at all.


Erwin Chemerinsky, who is a First Amendment expert and a dean at Berkeley Law, said it is unlikely that Perrier-Bilbo will be successful in her case. “Courts generally have not been receptive to this in the context of the Pledge of Allegiance,” he said.


 


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Parents Can’t Guarantee Their Child’s Faithfulness to God, Evangelical Author Says

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Christian parents cannot truly guarantee that their children will be godly, according to an evangelical Christian author.

Marshall Segal, author of Not Yet Married: The Pursuit of Joy in Singleness and Dating and contributor to desiringGod.org, wrote a piece last week about the possibility of children leaving the faith.

“Across every nation, every culture, in any generation, one thing rises highest on the prayer list of any Christian parent, dwarfing every other request we might make for our precious son or daughter: we want them to know, obey, and enjoy Jesus,” wrote Segal.

“We would trade in a heartbeat 80 years of cancer-free health, summa cum laude at commencement, financial stability and security, and a whole litter of baby boys and girls, if we knew that’s what it took to see our sons and daughters love Jesus.”

Segal wrote about the biblical King Ahaz, who, unlike his grandfather and father, was known to do many wicked things in the eyes of God.

“Watching Ahaz run away from the faith has always been difficult for me, but being a father has made it even more devastating. I’m suddenly able to imagine my own son rejecting Jesus and choosing sin after I am gone, refusing to tell my grandchildren about the strength, beauty, wisdom, and worth of our Savior,” noted…

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Conditional Love .

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Christian charity concerned about rise in reports of ‘honour-based’ violence

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Christian charity concerned about rise in reports of ‘honour-based’ violence

Just five per cent of cases reported to police are referred to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Peter Grant from Restored, which tackles violence against women, told Premier’s News Hour it’s never acceptable for these crimes to be committed.

He said: “These are basic crimes against individual human beings and I think what we must call out is the fact that no religion and no social code should be allowed to disguise the fact that these are crimes.”

The National Police Chiefs’ Council says honour based abuse is a complex crime and its priority is to safeguard vulnerable victims even where a conviction is not possible.

Grant explained why it can be hard to get these cases to court.

He said: “The reporting of cases has actually risen quite significantly – it’s gone up by over 50 per cent since 2014 so there does seem to be a problem in terms of the police addressing this.

“I think there is some evidence that police forces are not well prepared to be able to handle some of these cases. At the very basic we should see a mixture of justice and obviously compassion and support.”

 

The number of cases of honour based violence, forced marriage and FGM reported to the police has increased by 53 per cent since 2014, figures obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show.

HM Inspector of Constabulary Wendy Williams reviewed the situation two years ago and found so called honour killings disproportionately affect women…

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