Position Papers

CoverBrochure p1ETS1993 p2ETS1993 p3ETS1993 p4ETS1993 p5ETS1993 p6ETS1993 p7ETS1993 p8ETS1993 p9ETS1993 p10ETS1993 p11ETS1993 p12ETS1993 The above was submitted to the Evangelical Theological Society in 1993. I also submitted an essay in 1990, “The Ethics of Operation Rescue” and read it at one of the elective “break out meetings” the annual meeting, held that year in New Orleans. […]

Reformation Lutheran Church Anno Domini 2001 Position Statement: Women in the Military Statement The recent trend in our society to put women in combat roles in the name of equal rights is more of the same buffoonery that brought us child slaughter under the same principle. There is no benefit for the national defense in […]

Reformation Lutheran Church Anno Domini 2001 Position Statement: The Tenth Amendment Statement Article Ten of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States very succinctly says: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” […]

Reformation Lutheran Church Anno Domini 2001 States’ Right to Execute Abortionists Statement: Whereas: The ongoing slaughter of innocent womb children by both surgical and chemical means is the product of an opinion written by an ephemeral judicial tribunal; opinions of the Supreme Court are not law and ought not be respected as edicts from a […]

Reformation Lutheran Church Anno Domini 2001 Position Paper: Sodomites and Civil Rights Statement: We are defining sodomy as sexual relations between persons of the same sex. Such action is an abomination for individuals (Rom. 1; Lev. 18:22,23; 1 Cor. 6:9; 1 Thes. 4:3). This action is not to be regarded as a matter of privacy, […]

Reformation Lutheran Church Anno Domini 2001 Position Paper: Public Education Statement The various political issues surrounding the education of children involve a fundamental question of authority. Who has authority and therefore responsibility for the education of children? The answer guides conclusions to questions concerning vouchers, home schooling regulation, compulsory education, participation of home schooled or […]

Reformation Lutheran Church Anno Domini 2001 Position statement : Penology – Prisons and capital punishment Statement Punitive justice ought exclude imprisonment; it must include capital punishment. The penalty for crimes of theft ought to be manifold restitution. The penalty for crimes of personal bodily injury ought to be left to the judgment of the victim, […]

Reformation Lutheran Church Anno Domini 2001 Position Statement: The Feminist Heresy Statement Men and woman are not equal. One of the great heresies of our time is the rejection of the biblical doctrine of hierarchy and distinction in sexual roles which God has ordained. Men are women are not equal. Our nation recognized this fact […]

Reformation Lutheran Church Anno Domini 2001 Anti-abortionists and the right to use force to stop abortion Statement: Since convenience-driven abortion is nothing less than the murder of innocent human beings, the use of force to stop such wanton child-slaughter is justified. The same biblical principles which justify the intervention in behalf of the innocent adults, […]

Reformation Lutheran Church Anno Domini 2001 Church and State: the role of the church; the role of God’s law (justice). (Theocracy and democracy) Statement The role of the Churches with respect to the state is prophetic. The Church of God, as the “pillar of Truth” (1 Tim. 3:15), must address the state with the Truth, […]