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Do y’all have any New Year’s Resolutions.

I am going to try to find more nice things to say about Republicans.  I expect to do this for no whole days, just like they did for me.

Jesus took a real beating in the Bible Belt this week.

First you have county clerks in Florida refusing to perform their duties in Jesus’ name amen.

If same-sex marriage is allowed, Duval Clerk of Courts Ronnie Fussell, Clay Clerk Tara Green and Baker Clerk Stacie Harvey will have no choice but to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. But to avoid performing ceremonies for them, these clerks have decided to end all courthouse weddings.

Love one another, y’all.

Then there’s the shootin’ minister.  This is one odd story.

So there’s the minister of Windsor Hills Baptist Church, Tom Vineyard, in Oklahoma City.

Vineyard is an advocate of gun rights. He wrote an open letter in 2011 to Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty, criticizing statements the chief made supporting stricter gun registration laws.

Windsor Hills Baptist Church also has offered gun training sessions for its members.

That’s kinda weird but what the hell, it’s Oklahoma.  But even in Oklahoma, they called this guy and his church “controversial” for their emphasis on firearm training even for church youth.

So last Saturday afternoon, Vineyard gets a call from his home alarm company that motion had been detected at his house. Instead of calling the police, Vineyard rushes home, heart pounding in excitement no doubt, and finds an unarmed 14 year old African American male in his home hiding in a closet.

Vineyard says the unarmed 14 year old attacked him so he had no choice but to shoot him dead.

Prosecutor David Prater said the use of deadly force by Vineyard, pastor of the Windsor Hills Baptist Church, was “completely legitimate.”

And there’s this ….

CBS affiliate KWTV reports that a warning on the pastor”s front door reads: “Nothing on this property is worth your life.”

Well, obviously not.

Thou shalt not kill, y’all.

Thanks to Brian and Mike for the heads up.