Pastor Putnam called it a "teaching tool." Police call it illegal.

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http://www.sheboyganpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200903201600/GPG0101/90320122

Pastor, parishioner cited for shooting arrow in church

By Eric Litke • Gannett Wisconsin Media • March 20, 2009

SHEBOYGAN FALLS -- A Sheboygan Falls pastor and parishioner were issued municipal citations on Thursday for firing an arrow during Sunday's service.

About 120 people were attending the evening service at Pentecostals of Sheboygan County, 621 Broadway, when the Rev. John Putnam had Jason Wilke, 26, draw and fire a steel-tipped practice arrow across the front of the church.

Putnam called it a "teaching tool."

Police call it illegal.

Wilke, of Sheboygan Falls, was cited for using a missile indoors, and Putnam was cited for aiding and abetting that ordinance violation. Both will be fined $109.


The Pastor is back in the news again today:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-pastorsgun,0,493335.story

Pastor charged with carrying concealed gun

Associated Press
8:26 AM CDT, April 23, 2009

SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. - The Sheboygan Falls pastor recently cited for a bow and arrow demonstration in church, is now charged with carrying a concealed weapon into a police station.

A criminal complaint says the Rev. John Putnam came to the Sheboygan Falls Police Department Feb. 28 to answer questions about a suicidal parishioner that police had contact with earlier in the day. An officer says Putnam was wearing body armor and a police-style jacket and had a handgun concealed in the jacket.

[Ken Burch]

1. Man, those Wisconsin congregations must be a tough crowd if the pastors are packing heat.

This takes "Praise the Lord and Pass The Ammunition"



to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL.

[DeSwiss]

8. LOL!!!

- I like this one too!!!

[Ken Burch]

15. Well, He was a Middle Eastern religious "martyr".

n/t.

[tanyev]

14. Lots of shenanigans going on in Sheboygan.

:+

[Ghost in the Machine]

2. A Pastor wearing body armor? He must not have much faith in Gawd to keep him safe...n/t

[Ken Burch]

10. Or in his chances of being "Raptured"

n/t.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Hmmmm .............

This guy likes props and outfits. Helmets and body armor and bows and arrows and guns and he is a "former" pastor of a church but is now the leader of a strange-sounding group of Pentacostals?

Yep.

We've got a live one.....................

[Forkboy]

4. I tried the "teaching tool" line once, too.

:hide:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. That's not a tool,

and you should be ashamed of yourself ..............

[Forkboy]

6. I dunno. I can screw, hammer, and spackle with it.

and you should be ashamed of yourself

Never.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. I've got some spackle ..........

You man enough to take care of these ......................... openings in the wall?

[Forkboy]

9. Now you're asking for too much.

I'm about as handy as rubber crutches. :)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

11. Figures ..............

Ask a man to do something that really needs doing and he goes all soft, like rubber crutches.

;)

[Forkboy]

13. ....

:spray:

[DeSwiss]

12. And to HELL with all that turning the other cheek shit!!!!

- K&R!!!


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