The North Amerin Missn Board has issued new guil for Southern Baptist ary chaplas light of the U.S. ary's regnn of same-sex marriage. The guil reerate Southern Baptist doctre and the expectatn that SBC chaplas will not participate or attend weddg ceremoni for gay members of the ary.
Contents:
- MILARY CHAPLAS RAISE GAY MARRIAGE CONCERNS
- PENTAGON: CHAPLAS N CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAG
- EVANGELIL GROUPS DIVID ON ISSUE OF MILARY CHAPLAS AND GAY MARRIAGE
- EVANGELIL CHAPLAS REFE TO MARRY GAY COUPL ON MILARY BAS
MILARY CHAPLAS RAISE GAY MARRIAGE CONCERNS
WASHINGTON -- Milary chaplas n lead same-sex marriage ceremoni on and off ary bas, the Pentagon announced Friday (Sept. 30), a move that closely followed the repeal of a ban on openly gay service members.“A ary chapla may participate or officiate any private ceremony, w * military chaplain gay marriage *
“We have a right and a rponsibily to provi for everyone the Armed Forc whether they are gay, straight, or whether they are Christian or non-Christian, ” says Magns. And bee only six stat allow gay marriag, Boyd says the new guil are “only gog to be very mimal on s impact the ary, I thk. “The e of feral property or feral employe to perform gay marriage ceremoni is a clear ntraventn of the law, ” said Ak, a member of the Hoe Armed Servic mtee.
But groups reprentg gay servicemembers said chaplas should be able to follow their nscienc regardg same-sex unns.
“There are many chaplas the ary who simply do not believe that gay and lbian servicemembers are send-class cizens, and those chaplas should have the eedom to practice their relign as they see f, ” Alex Nicholson, executive director of Servicemembers Uned, said a statement on the group’s webse. Although ’s a re duty of ary chaplas is to provi relig support — and certa s perform relig servic — for troops wh different beliefs om their own, chaplas won’t have to perform gay marriag if they don’t want to, Stanley wrote. But the head of a group that opposed allowg gays to serve openly lashed the Pentagon for the new policy.
PENTAGON: CHAPLAS N CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAG
"It is outrageo that only ten days after repeal of the law agast homosexualy the Armed Forc, the Defense Department is already phg the ary further down the slippery slope, ” Tony Perks, Fay Rearch Council Print, said a statement.
20 of the law that required gays the ary to hi their sexual orientatn, gay troops have sought pary wh straight married servicemembers thgs like partner health benefs. Milary Chaplas Raise Gay Marriage Concerns Wednday, the Hoe Armed Servic Commtee passed s versn of a bill signed, part, to protect ary chaplas om g unr prsure to marry service members of the same sex. Milary Chaplas Raise Gay Marriage Concerns.
That was the policy banng gays servg openly the ary.
EVANGELIL GROUPS DIVID ON ISSUE OF MILARY CHAPLAS AND GAY MARRIAGE
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EVANGELIL CHAPLAS REFE TO MARRY GAY COUPL ON MILARY BAS
” said Donnelly, whose anizatn led the charge tryg to prerve the ban on gays servg openly the ary. Freedom to Marry, an anizatn that supports same-sex marriage, hailed the DOD announcements, even as some gay rights groups have some of the same qutns about the future after Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell.
“Discrimatn has no place the ary, or marriage—and of urse people, gay or nongay, should be able to celebrate their love and mment ceremoni whout terference by the ernment, ” said Evan Wolfson, the group’s founr and Col. The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri, for one, is allowg chaplas to make cisns at a lol level about how to handle gay marriage. " Pastor Kay Reed, a retired chapla wh ELCA, ed a mor stir when she performed a civil unn ceremony June 2012, one of the first gay marriag on a ary base.
Ary chaplas asked to perform weddgs will not be forced to vlate their nscienc nor the doctr of their fah — and may cle to officiate nuptials for homosexual upl. The same memo says chaplas are permted to perform homosexual marriage ceremoni on ary bas the six stat where such are allowed: Connecticut, Iowa, Massachetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont — will not be forced to do so.