an interesting editorial in the Washington Post: Pitting Gospel Against 12-Gauge In Hyattsville
By Marc Fisher Sunday, June 8, 2003; Page C01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30170-2003Jun7.html Marc Fisher can be reached by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Mossberg Model 500 shotgun, which retails for north of $300, has proved to be quite a draw for the Catholic Sportsmen's Organization. Each year on the Saturday before Father's Day, members of St. Jerome's Catholic Church in Hyattsville join with others from around town for lunch, fellowship, shooting contests and a gun raffle. The idea is to raise money for kids in Hyattsville who need good sports activities to keep them off the streets and out of gangs. The raffle has drawn bigger crowds and collected more money -- $30,000 in three years -- than your average church fundraiser. But some Catholics in Hyattsville believe that guns and God do not belong in the same building, nor in the same collection basket. continues...
