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While it may not be official notice, you now know their feelings are anti-CHL and they are uncomfortable with people carrying in church. Only you can make the decision if that weighs heavily enough on your ties to the church to either move on to another congregation or to continue to carry and hope that nothing formal comes out of it.

Personally, I know that our overall denomination's doctrine doesn't like handguns, but, when I have probed Pastors about things in the doctrine I don't agree with, they have always stated 'It's up to the individual to decide if they follow that or not.' I even had one state there were things in there that they don't agree with and even disregard themselves. One told me that he considers it guidelines, and not rules, so I make my own choices on carrying or not as long as I am legal.

We have had this problem before, especially during Easter and Christmas services where there are a lot of additional people you may not recognize. And, we have uniformed officers on site directing traffic and in the building during services, but they can't be everywhere at once.

Ladies have a tendency to leave their purse in the choir room or Sunday School classroom while they go attend to other things in the church and they are prime targets to just pick up walk out with.