SOUND THE TRUMPET

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

Add Matthew 6:1-4 to those Scriptures which no longer appear in Episcopal Bibles:

Singing “we shall overcome,” the Rev. Canon George Regas and more than a dozen other anti-war protestors were arrested Oct. 7 in front of the federal building in downtown Los Angeles after rallying against the war in Afghanistan.

The Rev. Tom Carey, a Franciscan monk at the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Los Angeles was also arrested at the rally, organized by Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace. ICUJP was founded by Regas after the Sept. 11 attacks.

For Regas, rector emeritus of All Saints Church, Pasadena, who turned 81 this week, the Oct. 7 arrest, was a symbolic gesture, to call attention to the “obscenity” of the war and what he called the staggering need to “make jobs, not war.” That chant was often repeated as protestors marched a half-mile from La Placita Church to the federal building.

Regas and other clergy and faith leaders in vestments led the group, praying, chanting and singing, from La Placita past Los Angeles City Hall. He and others called for an end to the war and for the government to create jobs and to assist the poor.