Comments on: Snake-handling pastor arrested

By: David Barger

David Barger — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:44:19 +0000

Caleb Powers – did you ever find out the name of that comedy song? I would love to know it. I have heard the song before but it has been years ago.

Thanks,

By: perplexed

perplexed — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:34:44 +0000

This pastor cut a deal and is out of jail.

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:54:12 +0000

Mike, there used to be an old comedy song where a gospel singing group came to a church and found out it was a bunch of snake handlers. One of the lines in it is, “Where’s the back door?” “They don’t have one.” “Where do they want one?”

By: Mike Huffman

Mike Huffman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:50:54 +0000

Ihope so Caleb, althoug the Lord may punish me and let one take a nip of me, I don’t think I’d be all that tasty though.

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:57:30 +0000

Your faith will protect you, Mike, if it’s strong enough. Otherwise, I’d suggest a shotgun; they move fast and don’t make much of a target.

By: Mike Huffman

Mike Huffman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:19:13 +0000

If I ever walk into a church with snakes crawlin the floor, I want ever gun I own.

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:37:12 +0000

I don’t know, David. There is no weapon (that I know of) named after a seagull, though Indiana Jones and his father did use them as a weapon one time. That puts it on Constitutionally dicy ground. However, the old German dive bomber, the Stuka, was named for a stork. You might want to switch to a stork just to be careful.

By: David Duke

David Duke — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:25:59 +0000

What about seagulls?

By: David Duke

David Duke — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:25:10 +0000

What about seagulls? Can we own cricket-eating seagulls?

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:39:42 +0000

BTW, the Kentucky Reptile Zoo in Slade (not far from where I grew up) is the place where the sick snake bit someone once, and then died, allowing the headline “Snake Bites Man, then Snake Dies.”

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:34:27 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree, Peach. What we need to do is get those people to stop riding motorcycles and start handling snakes: It would be safer! And, you don’t have to wear a helmet to handle snakes.

By: peach

peach — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:36:43 +0000

Caleb: I agree wholeheartily. I think it rather stupid to have seatbelt laws, but not motorcyclye helmet laws. Between the two, the head has always been more important to man than the heart; and the head stands far greater damage in an accident without the use of a helmet.

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:51:32 +0000

I think it is a travesty that we Kentuckians are allowed to own a Bushmaster assault rifle (though apparently not to point one at police officers), or a Colt Python, Anaconda, Diamondback, or King Cobra revolver, but not the reptiles after which these fine weapons were named. Surely, if we have a right to keep and bear arms, as the US Supreme Court has affirmed, we also have the right to keep and (carefully) bear the things after which our weapons were named.

And, I think the statute is unconstitutional because it singles out snakes for discrimination. For example, I can own both a Taurus Raging Bull pistol and the eponymous bull itself. Ditto the British Bulldog revolver. The Ruger Redhawk and Blackhawk series are admittedly problematic, due to the fact that most hawks are considered endangered species, but the owning of hawks and their use in hunting has been traditionally allowed, and I am told is a popular sport among our Middle Eastern allies.

But not snakes, even for religious purposes. As Indiana Jones once muttered: “Snakes, why does it always have to be snakes?”