WASHINGTON – Two weeks after the Supreme Court upheld sectarian prayers before government meetings, a guest military chaplain has pushed the envelope slightly in a prayer before the U.S. House of Representatives.
In a chamber accustomed to non-sectarian invocations by the House chaplain, Father Patrick Conroy, a Baptist chaplain, Lt. Cmdr. Tavis Long, prayed “in the name of the one who can truly set us free, my savior.”
Long is a U.S. Navy chaplain who graduated from Pensacola Christian College in Florida.
In Monday’s House invocation, he prayed that members of Congress would be “ever mindful that in that last day, we must all give an account.”
Thank the Lord for this Chaplain, let us even be more BOLD for our Lord! Amen! 