House: No gay weddings by military chaplains
Jul 9, 2011 13:18:33 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Jul 9, 2011 13:18:33 GMT -5
House: No gay weddings by military chaplains
By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY
Updated 20h 24m ago
Yes? No? Not yet? The answer is unclear.
The courts, the Pentagon and the Obama Administration are tossing out Don't Ask Don't Tell -- the law that blocked LBGT military from serving openly. But the House of Representatives holds to the traditional definition of marriage for service personnel.
According to the Associated Press, when the House passed a $649 billion defense spending bill today, it blocked any of those dollars to be used to train military chaplains on how to deal with the ending DADT policy:
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., sponsor of the amendment, said its purpose was to prohibit chaplains from performing same-sex marriages on Navy bases regardless of a state's law.
The chaplain corps has been in uproar over DADT -- pro and con -- for years. When Congress repealed DADT last year, I noted:
A Pentagon study concluded that open service would not affect military readiness but it also included some concerns about military "prayerfulness." Some of the military's 3,000 chaplains voiced fears that they would not be able to preach the truth of a religious belief that homosexual behavior is unbiblical.
Stars and Stripes has on-going coverage of the chaplain's concerns and offered an editorial debate on the impact of lifting DADT last year with two chaplains voicing opposite views.
Interesting comments:
content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2011/07/dont-ask-dont-tell-dadt-pentagon-doma/1
By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY
Updated 20h 24m ago
Yes? No? Not yet? The answer is unclear.
The courts, the Pentagon and the Obama Administration are tossing out Don't Ask Don't Tell -- the law that blocked LBGT military from serving openly. But the House of Representatives holds to the traditional definition of marriage for service personnel.
According to the Associated Press, when the House passed a $649 billion defense spending bill today, it blocked any of those dollars to be used to train military chaplains on how to deal with the ending DADT policy:
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., sponsor of the amendment, said its purpose was to prohibit chaplains from performing same-sex marriages on Navy bases regardless of a state's law.
The chaplain corps has been in uproar over DADT -- pro and con -- for years. When Congress repealed DADT last year, I noted:
A Pentagon study concluded that open service would not affect military readiness but it also included some concerns about military "prayerfulness." Some of the military's 3,000 chaplains voiced fears that they would not be able to preach the truth of a religious belief that homosexual behavior is unbiblical.
Stars and Stripes has on-going coverage of the chaplain's concerns and offered an editorial debate on the impact of lifting DADT last year with two chaplains voicing opposite views.
Interesting comments:
content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2011/07/dont-ask-dont-tell-dadt-pentagon-doma/1
