Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Military Chaplains, DoD, and Gay Marriages


http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=15073


Thousands of Chaplains defy Pentagon, refuse homosexual weddings. Over 2,000 evangelical military chaplains and all Roman Catholic chaplains have defied the Obama-Pentagon by proclaiming they will never endorse, perform, or facilitate homosexual marriages in the military, or in military chapels, setting up a confrontation that could soon lead to their punishment.

TheNewAmerican.com reports the "director of public affairs for the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, confirmed that no homosexual marriage ceremonies will be allowed at the Catholic Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point."

This open defiance of the Pentagon directly contradicts new rules that force all chaplains to facilitate homosexual weddings by opening up their chapels to desecration, even if the chaplains decline to preside at a ceremony. Last month we reported "The Defense Department general counsel [lawyer], said in one memo...that the military must make its facilities available on a basis that is neutral toward sexual orientation." [In other words, chaplains MUST open up their chapels to desecration.]

But the Catholic rebellion against the Pentagon matches the Pentagon's rebellion against federal law. "The Department of Defense has decided to put the White House's liberal agenda ahead of following the law," said Congressman Todd Akin, chairman of the House Armed Services sea power subcommittee, to The Hill. "The Defense of Marriage Act makes it clear that for the purposes of the federal government, marriage is defined as between one man and one woman."

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