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To: madprof98
"...Col. Timothy Wagoner has been an Air Force chaplain for 20 years, serving a denomination — the Southern Baptists — that rejects same-sex relationships. Yet here he was at the chapel he oversees, watching supportively as an airman and his male partner celebrated a civil union ceremony. “I wouldn’t miss it,” Wagoner said at the McGuire Air Force Base chapel, days later. “I don’t feel I’m compromising my beliefs … I’m supporting the community...”

He is rationalizing his 'supportiveness', and thereby supporting the entire thing.

Sad.

I know, I am not in a position to criticize, since I don't have to make a choice (yet) between my career and openly supporting homosexuality, but...he is a Baptist Chaplain. How can he be 'supportive' without compromising his beliefs?

This whole thing makes me want to vomit.

11 posted on 07/05/2012 12:32:21 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: rlmorel

Col Wagoner is a disgrace and I encourage other SBC members to write him and tell in so in the direct tough love manner baptists have ever been known for dealing with those who are doctrinally challenged. a couple hundred letters would probably give this weak man some pause. He is< I note a full colonel, so he could certainly retire today with lose of benefits or pension. He is such a jellyfish I wonder how long he has been an 0-6. I think one has to serve in grade three years to be able to retire in the highest grade one served at. This is perhaps small of me but I wonder if he doesn’t have some months to go before he can retire as an 0-6 rather than an 0-5. The difference in retired pay is Col. Wagoner’s 30 pieces of silver. While it would cost a bit sending this gentleman 30 silver dimes might make a dramatic point to him.


31 posted on 07/05/2012 12:59:31 PM PDT by robowombat
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