Speaker Paul Ryan FIRED The House Chaplain And The Reason Is Absolutely Disgusting
Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. has been in a whirlwind this past week over the controversy
surrounding the firing of the House Chaplain.
Sources on both sides of the aisle are anonymously telling media outlets that House Chaplain
Patrick Conroy was unceremoniously pushed out for unknown reasons.
However, the reason may be well known after all.
Rumors indicate that he was asked to leave after making political comments in his daily
prayer, one in particular regarding tax reform.
The Hill reported,
"Conroy's own resignation announcement stated that it was done at Ryan's request.
"As you have requested, I hereby offer my resignation as the 60th Chaplain of the United
States House of Representatives," the April 15 letter to Ryan, obtained by The Hill, states.
Through his office, Conroy, who has served as chaplain since 2011, declined to comment
on Thursday.
His resignation is effective May 24.
Four different sources — two from each party — say Conroy was told that he must retire
or that he would be dismissed.
The message from Ryan was delivered by his chief of staff, Jonathan Burks.The issue has
riled House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who broached the episode during the Democrats'
whip meeting in the Capitol Thursday morning.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are planning to send a letter to Ryan requesting additional
information regarding Conroy's dismissal; the group is currently circulating the letter
among colleagues to collect more signatures.
The thinking among Democrats is that Ryan pushed Conroy out "because Republicans thought
he was aligned with Democrats," according to a senior Democratic aide familiar with
the discussion.
House chaplains, who offer an opening prayer each day the House is in session, are supposed
to be nonpartisan.
It's unclear exactly what if any political dispute, however, led to the chaplain's
dismissal.
A Democratic lawmaker said that the Speaker took issue with a prayer on the House floor
that could have been perceived as being critical of the GOP tax-cut bill.
On Nov. 6 — the first day of the markup on the GOP's tax bill — Conroy in a prayer
urged lawmakers to ensure the legislation did not exacerbate the nation's gaping class
disparities.
"May all Members be mindful that the institutions and structures of our great Nation guarantee
the opportunities that have allowed some to achieve great success, while others continue
to struggle," Conroy said at the time.
"May their efforts these days guarantee that there are not winners and losers under
new tax laws, but benefits balanced and shared by all Americans."
A senior GOP aide said Conroy's exit "was not because of any particular prayer."
Ryan's and Pelosi's offices agree that Pelosi was told in advance that the chaplain
was leaving.
AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Ryan, said it was Ryan's decision, but declined to
offer a reason for the move.
She added that Pelosi and her office "were fully read in and did not object."
"The speaker told Leader Pelosi that he would not move forward with the decision if
she objected and she chose not to," Strong said.
In a separate statement to media outlets late Thursday, Strong said, "The speaker consulted
with the minority leader, but the decision was his.
He remains grateful for Father Conroy's service."
Pelosi's office disputed that the Democrat did not object.
"Leader Pelosi was given advance notice by Speaker Ryan," said a Pelosi spokesman,
but she "also made it clear to Speaker Ryan that she disagreed with this decision."
A second Democratic aide said Conroy's ouster was "largely driven by a speech on the tax
bill that the Speaker didn't like."
But the source also offered a second reason.
"Some of the more conservative evangelical Republicans didn't like that the Father
had invited a Muslim person to give the opening prayer," the source said.
When Pelosi, who is Catholic, informed members of her whip team on Thursday morning that
Conroy was pushed out against his will, it "shocked" the members, according to one
lawmaker.
Catholic members on both sides of the aisle were furious to learn that Conroy's retirement
was not voluntary, according to multiple sources, including one Republican lawmaker and one
Democratic member.
Ryan, who is also Catholic, has appointed Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), an Air Force Reserve
chaplain, as well as Reps. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) and Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), both former pastors,
to lead the search effort to find a replacement.
Conroy's arrival on Capitol Hill was also marked with some controversy.
The Jesuit priest was nominated by former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in May 2011,
but Pelosi urged additional vetting of the pick after learning that Conroy was then working
for a Catholic religious order — the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus — that
had agreed just months earlier to pay $166 million to victims of sexual abuse going back
decades.
There was no evidence that Conroy was involved in the scandal, nor did Pelosi suggest that
was the case.
After further questioning, she endorsed his nomination."
One of the primary problems with this controversy is that if Minority Leader Pelosi sincerely
had so much of a problem with the firing and resignation than she should have objected
to it instead of simply disagreeing.
She has no room to talk.
If she felt something was so suspicious about it she should have used her power to avoid
the outcome but she didn't.
Which makes it look like now she is trying to make this a controversy for no other reason
than to just be obstructionist.
Especially considering she was initially wary of his nomination.
Moreover, even if it was not his intent to make a political comment, his prayer was perceived
as taking a side on the tax reform issue.
But it is not the job of the House Chaplain to take political sides, in fact, it is his
job to do the exact opposite and to serve his ministry to all members.
The same as the House Physician is not supposed to have any political affiliation or speak
his political opinions in public.
This is just the way this business works and if you cannot abide by those rules you should
not be working there.
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(ENG SUB)Is this song really GFRIEND's song? GFRIEND - Time for the moon night MV reaction - Duration: 6:44.
Hello everyone. This is GoToe
Today's MV is GFRIEND's 6th mini album
Time for the moon night
It's been a long time since they finished their
5th mini album, summer rain
So It is really good news to me
When you think about the title of this song
It is really fit well with these weather
Personally I prefer their early concept
powerful and innocent conept
but when you see their last album
Emotional song is really fit with GFRIEND too
So I am really excited to see their new song
Let's see it now together
Start :)
Unique introduction
Those kind of introduction is
first time I think
Rhythm 100/100
Normally GFRIEND song is
start with the rhythm only
This is their new trial
I thought this song is emotional song
But it is not
She changed hair color
They has innocent in their song
I love this part...
Choreo is not easy at this time too
Normally they have dance part between 1st, 2nd part
I really love a rhythm of main part
Stone tomb suddenly?
Look at her beauty
How to make this wonderful part???
Actually I really don't know about story
I am always focus on the singing and dancing
Oh, That's it
I need to see the choreo
This song is really good in spring
Really fit
Choreo is
Not easy in this time too
But also not very hard I think?
like FINGERTIP
Not so hard in this time
Like ROUGH
or Me Gustas Tu
I think easier than those
I can't see choreo in this part
But Rhythm is perfect
This song is made so well
Yes guys we saw GFRIEND's
6th mini album title song
The most unique part of this song is
Introduction
They always start their song with rhythm
(ROUGH)
(Glass bead)
(Me Gustas Tu)
But in this time they started song with the voice
That is so unique
I am not sure but that is Eunha's voice?
I am not sure
2nd. I really love rhythm of the main part
Actually I prefer dance songs
than emotional songs
So when I see the introduction of this album
'This song is fit well with this weather'
I was worried a bit
Because I prefer dance song
But after see the MV
This song is not very emotional
and also it is really good to listen
who prefer dance song like me
It is really nice to listen in this weather
When you drive or walk at day or night
and 3rd opinion is about clothes
When you see the clothes at MV or stage
They always wear same clothes or similar one
but when you see the choreo in this MV
They wear 6 different clothes by their concept
that is so interesting to me
Because this is the first time to see that
When you see the intro or clothes
This MV is really different with their
previous song, a lot of new trial
This is the end of this MV reaction
Weather is getting hotter now
you need to prepare for it
and see you in my next video
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If Someone is at Fault in an Accident in Georgia Can They Still Recover Their Damages? - Duration: 1:21.
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That Nerdy Catholic is Back - Duration: 7:19.
well it's been four weeks since the end of #vLent it's been a good break but it's
time to get back to the channel thank y'all for sticking with me. I can't
believe I just said y'all. I'm not even in the South. I want to thank you for
sticking with me so let's look at the future, what's in store for That Nerdy Catholic
coming up. if you hear a little bit of wind today I'm sorry I didn't put
the little mousey windscreen guy on my microphone I'm looking forward to doing
some experiments on this channel, both in content and in style so I'll
probably do some more experiments like this walking around vlog maybe some
dramas who knows but you know the sky's the limit the main thing I want this
channel to be about that's what I've always wanted to be about finding common
ground between Catholics and Protestants and so my desire is to help some people
see that Catholics or Christians really that's that sums up what I want to do on
my channel. I want my fellow Protestant brothers and sisters to realize the Catholics are
Christians. I think we all need to take part in this discussion about what it
means to be a Christian what it means to be a follower of Christ and even what it
means to be a Catholic and what it means to be a Protestant. What it means to be an
evangelical what it means to be Orthodox the church has never been static the
church has grown I've heard this analogy a lot that the church started off in the
time of Christ as an acorn and now it's an oak tree it was always an oak but now
it is is bigger it's more complicated and no matter how big and how
complicated the church is God is always going to be bigger still one thing that
I want to say again is that I want this to be a conversation I would love to hear
your thoughts in the comments below about what you think unity means about
what you think ecumenism means what it could be what it should be and so how is
this channel going to look going forward I'm not going to be able to keep up the
schedule that I did during #vLent of having a new video every Monday through
Saturday and so I'm going to be dialing back a bit
sorry I just heard a engine in the sky and I wanted to see the airplane fly so
what's the schedule moving forward every Monday morning I'm going to be putting
up a new vlog every Wednesday at noon Eastern Standard Time
I'll be doing a live stream probably about 30 minutes maybe a little bit
longer in these live streams I'll focus on the topic of the vlog of that week
but you can come on ask any questions that you want I'll try
and have a good conversation with each other and every Friday morning I'll be
putting up a video that has something to do with the coming home network the work
that we're doing the content that we're putting out maybe it will be something
about the short video that we put out that week the signposts or the insights
video one of the deepen history videos that we put up before but Friday morning
will be a coming home Network related video I really want to bridge the work
that I'm doing on my youtube channel on that nerdy Catholic with the coming home
network especially the coming Network YouTube channel I'm really excited about
the content that we're putting out at the coming Network and I'm looking
forward to talking more about the work behind this content as well as the
content itself new vlog every Monday morning live stream every Wednesday at
noon Eastern Standard Time and Friday morning some sort of a coming
home network related content video I'm gonna i'm gonna change my start walking
back and change my perspective again i'm going to start walking back and change
my perspective again i'm going to start walking back and change my perspective
again
it's really neat-looking Methodist church here really cool old brick
building some neat stained-glass windows that was built in 1820 one more thing I
am planning on putting up a patreon campaign at some point in the next month
or two I've been thinking about rewards and incentives. Some fun things to
do with content just for Patreon supporters if you have any ideas any
thoughts you would love to share I would love to hear them this is all new to me
I'm figuring this out as I go along and so I'm looking forward to having you as my
partners if you are you've never been to the Midwest you won't know that there's
so many trains that go through here
one of the reward levels is definitely going to be a private Facebook group
where you can come and you can help me think about the content and the direction
of this channel I don't want to do this all by myself
say it again I'll keep on saying it I'm not an expert but it's just a passion of
mine I want to share my faith I want to share my journey I want to hear about
your journeys as well I want to find the common ground between Catholics and
Protestants I've lived in both worlds and I want to see those worlds come
closer together and so I invite you again on this adventure this adventure
of unity this advent... this adventure of ecumenism and let's think together
how can we find common ground so this is the first of my vlogs come back
Wednesday at noon for my first live stream and Friday morning for my first
coming home network video yeah let's see where we go I'm excited about this.
You can watched another video up here If you like what I'm doing on this channel hit
that subscribe button hit that like button if you liked this video and that
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live stream on Wednesday god bless
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The Rocket is coming home - Duration: 1:49.
I'm standing in front of Robert Stevenson's Robert locomotive, made
in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1829, and it was the world's first modern steam
locomotive, which helped to usher in the railway age and the transformation of
the world.
This is one of the most important mechanical artifacts that's ever been made.
It was manufactured in Newcastle to work on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
from 1830 onwards, and what it did for the first time was to bring together all
kinds of inventions and technologies into one machine - The Rocket - which led
the way for all subsequent railway technology for many decades.
It hasn't been back to Newcastle,
the city where it was constructed, since 1862. It's been on show in
South Kensington pretty much continuously since then. Q. I thought The
Rocket was bright yellow, why does this look different?
What we've got here is
Stephenson's Rocket as it is now, after the end of its working life. When it was
first built, it was bright yellow; the chimney was bright white to show that it
wouldn't get covered in coal dust. [Pic: The National Railway Museum]
It was the future. It was all about speed; well, it
worked for several years and as it was modified and changed and then eventually
abandoned for a little while, it ended up taking on the form we see now. So we
haven't changed that; we haven't repainted it. It's a symbol of what
happens when machines have long lives and then go on to change the world.
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Google Chrome's next update is all about emoji - Duration: 2:04.
Google Chrome's next update is all about emoji Google Chrome has added a new shortcut to its desktop browser designed to make typing emoji easier. The new feature is currently being tested in Chrome Canary – the beta version of the web browser.
Those who use Chrome Canary, which gets the latest features well before the standard Chrome app, can enable the emoji shortcut now. Simply type-in chrome://flags into the address bar and then search "emoji," technology blog 9to5Google instructs. The new feature would add an emoji option when Chrome users right-click a text field inside the app.
The right-click menu would pull-up the emoji options for Mac, Windows, Linux, or ChromeOS, depending on which operating system the browser is running on. Emoji are becoming an increasingly important feature.
Apple showcased the ability to quickly find and add emoji as a feature when it unveiled the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar redesign. While the Google Chrome feature is far from groundbreaking, it should make it a little easier to drop emoji into conversations online.
And the right-click is undoubtedly easier to remember than the Command + Control + Space shortcut available systemwide on macOS devices. The feature hasn't yet made it to the public version of Chrome, but will likely launch in the coming weeks.
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