Feb. 17, 2014— -- The "snake handling" pastor of a small Pentecostal church in Kentucky died after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a weekend church service.Jamie Coots, the pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro, Ky., was handling a rattlesnake during a service when he was bitten on his right hand Saturday night.Coots and his followers believe that God calls upon them to handle venomous serpents and to drink other poisons.A Tennessee law banning ownership of poisonous reptiles was passed back in 1947 after five worshippers were killed over two years.Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officials seized 50 poisonous snakes, including rattlesnakes and copperheads, from Hamblin in November and cited him for illegally possessing dangerous animals."