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Pastor Gets Plea Deal In Snakes Case
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by tigers9 on July 22, 2008
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After watching the video, if venomous snake handling is sooo dangerous as claimed, I am then surprised we don’t have more fatalities…I mean, the guy is doing disco dance with the venom snakes.
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http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=8715400&nav=EQlp
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Pastor Gets Plea Deal In Snakes Case
Posted: July 22, 2008 09:36 AM PDT
Updated: July 22, 2008 09:57 AM PDT
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Pastor Makes Plea Deal In Illegal Snakes Case
A Bell County pastor accused of illegally buying, selling and owning venomous snakes has agreed to a plea deal that will keep him out of prison.
Gregory Coots entered a guilty plea in a Bell County courtroom Tuesday morning to seven counts of buying, selling or transporting protected wildlife .. as well as another count of holding protected wildlife. He will have to pay $6,400 in fines and will be on probation for 2 years.
Wildlife officers say they removed 60 snakes from Coots' house earlier this month, including copperheads, cottonmouths, cobras, rattlesnakes and an adder.
Coots heads the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro. Worshippers sometimes handle poisonous snakes.
The Associated Press reports that in 1995 a woman from Tennessee died when a snake bit her during a service at Coots' church.
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Pastor in snake bust reaches plea deal
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PINEVILLE, Ky. --The pastor of a Kentucky church who was arrested earlier this month for housing poisonous snakes has reached a plea agreement that will let him avoid jail time.
WLEX-TV reports that Gregory Coots pleaded guilty in Bell County on Tuesday to seven counts of buying, selling or transporting protected wildlife. Coots, 36, will have to pay $6,400 in fines and be placed on probation for two years.
More than 100 snakes, many of them deadly, were confiscated in an undercover sting by police on July 10. Most of the reptiles were found at Coots' home in Middlesboro.
Coots is the pastor at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro, where a Tennessee woman died after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a service in 1995.
http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/468627.html
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by earthguy on July 23, 2008
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I have always wanted to visit one of these churches. I'm just afraid that I won't recognize the hymns
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by FSB on July 29, 2008
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I've always had to wonder about these churches (though I too would like to visit one sometime). The passage in the Gospel just refers to "serpents." It doesn't specify "deadly, venomous serpents." How about ball pythons or corn snakes? Or even rubber snakes? I mean, a little symbolism can go a long way. For instance, most church-goers don't actually drink real blood during communion. Also, the entire phrase is "they shall take up serpents." Couldn't that be interpreted in the same sense as to "take up golf" or "take up guitar?" In that case, we should all be in pretty good shape with the Lord!
Three things fill me with wonder, four I do not understand: the way of an eagle crossing the sky, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship crossing the sea, and the way of a man with a maiden. -- Proverbs
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