Report: "Church Cancels Semiautomatic Assault Rifle Giveaway"

From the Christian blogosphere:

Sorry kids, the Windsor Hill Baptist church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA (where else?) won’t be giving away the AR-15 assault rifle it bought for that purpose.
You’ll have to wait till next year:

Church Cancels Semiautomatic Assault Rifle Giveaway

An Oklahoma City church called off plans to give away a semiautomatic assault rifle at a weekend gathering of teenagers, the church’s pastor said.

Plans called for Windsor Hills Baptist to give away the weapon as a way of encouraging attendance at the gathering but plans changed when one the event’s organizers was unable to attend, KOCO 5, Oklahoma City, reported Sunday.

... The gun giveaway has been taken down from the Web site, but Ross said the church will give the gun away next year.

I dislike all "let's trick the kids into coming to Mass/services" ploys like this one. I don't think, however, the concept is quite as innately offensive as the picture which the blog chose to accompany the story.