Milary Chaplas Raise Gay Marriage Concerns : NPR

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• 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

“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. "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.

PENTAGON: CHAPLAS N CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAG

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.

Homosexualy is a Correct. And you have to unrstand that the majory of the nomatns and fah groups that are the ary, you know, om orthodox Jews, Mlims, Greek orthodox, Rsian orthodox, majory of Prottants, Roman Catholic Church, I mean they're all om tradns that hold that homosexualy is a s. 30), a move that closely followed the repeal of a ban on openly gay service members.

” 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.

EVANGELIL GROUPS DIVID ON ISSUE OF MILARY CHAPLAS AND GAY MARRIAGE

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.

The cisn “threatens to reigne the ntent bate Congrs over gays and lbians the ary, ” not Charl Hoskson Poli. The move was hailed by homosexual advocy groups and nounced by nservative groups such as the Concerned Women for Ameri.

EVANGELIL CHAPLAS REFE TO MARRY GAY COUPL ON MILARY BAS

The e of feral property or feral employe to perform gay marriage ceremoni is a clear ntraventn of the law. 20 orr lifted the ary’s long-standg DADT policy, allowg homosexuals to openly serve the armed the memorandum acknowledged a chapla’s right to not participate same-sex marriage ceremoni the new policy mak clear that the Pentagon has placed the ary the midst of a eply ntroversial issue durg a time of ongog Crews, executive director of the Chapla Alliance for Relig Liberty and a retired Army chapla said, “By dishontly sanctng the e of feral facili for ‘marriage unterfes’ that feral law and the vast majory of Amerins have rejected, the Pentagon has lnched a direct asslt on the fundamental un of society – hband and wife. Although the ary’s memorandum acknowledgg a chapla’s right to refe to perform a same-sex marriage was outled the memo, Crews is still ncerned that some chaplas will be discrimated agast by holdg te to their biblil prcipl of nsirg homosexualy a s and not God’s will.

“It is outrageo that only 10 days after the repeal of the law agast homosexualy the armed forc, the Department of Defense is already phg the ary further down the slippery slope, ” Perks said a wrten statement. ”The Catholic chapel at the Uned Stat Milary Amy at Wt Pot, a chapel ntrolled by the Catholic Church, will not be allowg homosexual marriag, acrdg to the archdce spokman Taylor Henry. ” But same-sex upl are ee to pick their own clergy member to perform their marriage ceremoni have been takg place ary chapels sce September 2013, when the Pentagon led that same sex partners of a service member were entled to the same benefs provid to oppose sex upl, such as health re, accs to ary facili and servic on all ary cisn me two years after the Pentagon lifted the "don't ask, don't tell" prohibn agast openly gay men or women servg the MiklaszewskiJim Miklaszewski is the chief Pentagon rrponnt for NBC News.

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. Rtrictns — The guil state that “NAMB-endorsed chaplas will not nduct or attend a weddg ceremony for any same-sex uple, bls such a unn or perform unselg support of such a unn, assist or support paid ntractors or volunteers leadg same-sex relatnal events, nor offer any kd of relatnship trag or retreat, on or off of a ary stallatn, that would give the appearance of acceptg the homosexual liftyle or sexual wrongdog. ” Chaplas also are prohibed om participatg jotly-led worship servic “wh a chapla, ntractor or volunteer who personally practic a homosexual liftyle or affirms a homosexual liftyle or such nduct.