Pastor Wastes $3,000 In Church Funds To Espouse Political Views, Breaks Law

By Bob Owens

If you found out that your pastor wasted $3,000 from your church’s discretionary fund to buy raffle tickets for an item worth less than a third of that amount, and that he fully intended to destroy from the outset, you’d likely be calling for his head.

If you found out that he then did something illegal with that item, which falls well afoul of your church’s guidelines for “pious and charitable uses,” you’d probably launch an inquiry to see about his termination.

Fortunately for the rabidly anti-gun Reverend Jeremy Lucas, his very liberal congregation doesn’t seem to care.

Unfortunately for Rev. Lucas, he ran afoul of the very gun laws he championed, and and illegally transferred the gun to a parishioner without a state-law mandated background check.

A pastor in an affluent suburb of Portland may have run afoul of Oregon law when he transferred an AR-15 assault rifle that he won in a softball league raffle to a gun-owning friend for safekeeping without performing a background check.

The Oregon State Police will open an investigation into whether the Rev. Jeremy Lucas violated any law, spokesman Capt. Bill Fugate told The Associated Press on Tuesday, although the decision on charges would …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms