1. Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell Implications 'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Monday, December 20th, 2010 (excerpt) REP. BARNEY FRANK (D), MASS: … Getting rid of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” basically gets rid of one of the major discriminatory laws on the books. And it has broader implications because what it says is to America is, You know what? Gays and lesbians can serve in the military. And if you can do that, you can do anything because of the skills and the courage that that takes. CHRIS MATTHEWS :... what you said about DADT because I‘ve always been trying to figure out, growing up as you and I did in the years since World War II, how certain ethnic groups were able to get through. Catholics and Jews, to a large extent, became much more assimilated because of their service in World War II, which was so … integrated, if you will, in the main battles. And now, if you have gay men and women who are involved in defending the country, that creates another new revolution of assimilation where people are recognized for having done what they‘ve been allowed to do. FRANK : No, it’s absolutely right…

2. Vice President Biden: Same-sex marriage is as 'inevitable' as Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal

3. Galatians Summary Outline I. I. Ch 1-2: Defense of Message and Messenger II. II. Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works III. III. Ch 5-6: New Life in the Spirit

4. Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works A. 3:1-9The Preeminence of Faith B. 3:10-14The Curse of Works C. 3:15-18The Precedent of Promise D. 3:19-25The Purpose of the Law E. 3:26-4:7Sons and Heirs through Christ F. 4:8-18The Emptiness of Legalism G. 4:19-31Law and Grace Cannot Coexist

5. “The Test Question” Believing what was heard“observing the law”? The true gospelThe legalizers “gospel” 3:6-9Faith (“Abraham”) 3:15-18Faith (“covenant”) 3:23-29Faith (“heirs”) 3:10-14Law (“the curse”) 3:19-22Law (“transgressions”) 4:1-7Law (“bondage”)

6. “promises” evpaggeli,a EPANGELIA “gifts graciously bestowed without negotiation” (Merryman) “gifts graciously bestowed without negotiation” (Merryman) “the plural is used because the one promise to Abraham was variously repeated” “the plural is used because the one promise to Abraham was variously repeated”

7. “Seed” vs. “Seeds” Donald Campbell “The stress on seed, not seeds, was made simply to remind the readers that the faithful in Israel had always recognized that blessing would ultimately come through a single individual, the Messiah.”

8. Galatians 3:17 “A covenant having been confirmed before by God [to Christ] the after-four-hundred-and-thirty-years- having-come-into-being law does not annul, so as to abolish the promise.”

9. Galatians 3:17 “A covenant having been confirmed before by God [to Christ] the after-four-hundred-and-thirty-years- having-come-into-being law does not annul, so as to abolish the promise.”

10. Galatians 3:17 “A covenant having been confirmed before by God [to Christ] the Mosaic Law does not annul, so as to abolish the promise.”

11. “confirm beforehand” prokuro,w PROKUROŌ

12. “confirm beforehand” prokuro,w PROKUROŌ kuro,w KUROŌ to make valid to make valid to confirm publicly or solemnly; to ratify to confirm publicly or solemnly; to ratify

13. “confirm beforehand” prokuro,w PROKUROŌ kuro,w KUROŌ to make valid to make valid to confirm publicly or solemnly; to ratify to confirm publicly or solemnly; to ratifyPRO/KUROŌ before/ratify or make valid

14. “annul” v 15 avqete,w ATHETEŌ from Vine’s: “to put as of no value, …hence to act…as though it were annulled”

15. “annul” v 15 avqete,w ATHETEŌ from Vine’s: “to put as of no value, …hence to act…as though it were annulled” v 17 avkuro,w AKUROŌ

16. “annul” v 17 avkuro,w AKUROŌ A/KUROŌ not/ratify or make valid

17. “annul” v 17 avkuro,w AKUROŌ A/KUROŌ not/ratify or make valid to render void in sense of depriving of force and authority

18. “make of no effect” katarge,w KATARGEŌ

19. “make of no effect” katarge,w KAT/ARGEŌ KATAARGEŌ

20. “make of no effect” katarge,w KAT/ARGEŌ KATAARGEŌ (various)to be inactive or idle

21. KATARGEŌ Gal 5:4 NKJV“have become estranged” KJV“is become of no effect” NASB“have been severed” NIV“have been alienated”

22. KATARGEŌ Gal 5:4 NKJV“have become estranged” KJV“is become of no effect” NASB“have been severed” NIV“have been alienated” Gal 5:11 NKJV/KJV“has [is] ceased” NASB/NIV“has been abolished”

23. KATARGEŌ Gal 3:17 NKJV/KJV“make of no [none] effect” NASB“nullify” NIV“do away with”

24. “make of no effect” katarge,w KAT/ARGEŌ KATAARGEŌ down (Vine’s)to be inactive or idle down (Vine’s)to be inactive or idle “to reduce to inactivity; to render useless”

25. v 15: avqete,w ATHETEŌ “annuls; disannuleth; set[s] aside” v 17: avkuro,w AKUROŌ “annul; disannul; invalidate; set aside” katarge,w KATARGEŌ “make of no [none] effect; nullify; do away with”

26. Galatians 3:17 James Boice “The difference is of no consequence from the viewpoint of Paul’s argument, because his point depends only on the historical sequence. If God had been blessing Abraham and his posterity through the way of promise for 430 years and if he was to do the same for all men through Christ and his posterity, how could the giving of the law annul this promise? It could not, as even the human analogy of covenants and wills shows. Therefore the law cannot add to, nor subtract from, God’s first and only way of salvation.”

27. Galatians 3:15-18 Synopsis Ron Merryman “Though God gave both the Promise and the Law, He in no way was suggesting by adding the latter to the former that His normative method of dealing with men (the grace-promise method) was altered….That the Law should alter of annul the Promise or change God’s grace method of dealing with men was in no way God’s intent or purpose in giving it.”