or
reading that the group meeting on Maryland Ave (and in other places)
included any participants from the NAC.
Bill
W. A. Wildhack III
PCUSA minister, Florida lawyer, Navy Chaplain
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Douglas Laycock dlayc...@virginia.edu wrote:
Not the presidential candidate, but the lead
Some possibly disjointed thoughts from my minister/chaplain/lawyer brain . .
.
Several in this discussion have used the phrase withdraw the power to
solemnize civil marriages from churches or similar language. I think a
more accurate-even if cumbersome-phrase might be the power to perform
The latest suit by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation on these issues
was filed this week in Kansas (I got a copy of the complaint at
http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/urgent%20_issues/complain_sept08.pdf
About ten pages of the complaint look like a repeat of the broader
allegations
Some of the rest of the story is that Sen. Chambers is apparently Nebraska's
longest serving state senator, and the AP story includes this info:
Chambers, who skips morning prayers during the legislative session and often
criticizes Christians, said he filed the lawsuit to show that anybody
Ironically/coincidentally/providentially (your choice!), the quote of the
day on my iGoogle home page today is this from Bertrand Russell:
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will
scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will
refuse to
Removal from CFR does not mean the regulations no longer exist-just that
they're now found only in the DoD documents this part of CFR was based on.
I'm not so sure that this action counts as something that affects religious
liberty so mightily since the Conscientious Objector regs do still
Disclaimer: Any views expressed below are my own and do not necessarily
reflect the official position of the Department of the Defense, any of its
components, or the Navy Chaplain Corps.
For those who are interested in exploring the question of latitude Prof.
Jamar raised below, two of the key
Disclaimer: Any views expressed below are my own and
do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Department of the Navy
or the Navy Chaplain Corps.
Professor Guinn has called attention to something I've
been wondering about since I first saw this particularline of argument
made
Disclaimer: Any views expressed below are my
own and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Department of
the Navy or the Navy Chaplain Corps.
Professors,
If the agreement to remove the "Military Chaplains
Prayer Law" from the National Defense Authorization Act resulted
