The Daily Show found religion on Thursday, sort of. While Comedy Central’s flagship show did not repent for claiming Jesus would approve of Transgender Visibility Day or that Christmas is “the queerest holiday of all,” it did send Desi Lydic to Michigan to meet with Episcopal priest Chris Yaw to hype his gun buyback program.
Lydic began, “How does a priest get involved with getting guns off the streets?”
Yaw answered with a statement of questionable accuracy, “In America, it is a lot easier to get a gun than to get rid of a gun.”
Is it? This entire segment was about how you could just give Yaw your gun and he would work with the local police to destroy it. Nevertheless, Yaw continued, “There is the sense that, in churches, we are just going to pray for this gun problem, but church people are sick of thoughts and prayers…
