Senate Republicans blocked the Defense Department bill Tuesday, September 21, 2010, objecting to gay rights and immigration language in the annual legislation that sets policies and spending levels for the Pentagon. Majority Democrats, needing 60 votes to break a filibuster and begin consideration of the bill, fell short 43 to 56. Arkansas Democrats Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor joined all 40 Republicans in voting no.
Many of us who are retired chaplains and ecclesiastical endorsers believe that God blocked the repeal by having the Democrats add amendments that the Republicans just wouldn't stand for so they lined up against passage. God can confuse the mind of the wicked so that His purposes are accomplished.
So, I pause to give thanks to God for the favor He has shown to those who are evangelicals, charismatics, Pentecostals, and God fearing people.
While Tuesday's vote will protect our military for at least a little while longer, we’re not out of the woods yet. Senatpr Reid intentionally voted with our side so that he can raise this issue again in December, just after the Pentagon report comes out. Thus, we’ll need to continue to be vigilant in prayer and thinking of ways that we can continue to gain ground here
GOP senators said two controversial additions--language to begin the repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the military and a last-minute amendment based on the DREAM Act to give young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship if they complete two years of college or serve that long in the military--made the bill impossible to support.
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Wed, September 22, 2010
by Hugh Morgan