Posted on 09/30/2011 4:34:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Pentagon will permit military chaplains to perform same-sex marriage as long as such ceremonies are not prohibited in the states where they reside, it said Friday.
Defense Department guidance issued to military chaplains said they may participate in ceremonies on or off military bases in states that recognize gay unions. Chaplains are not required to officiate at same-sex weddings if doing so is counter to their religious or personal beliefs, the guidance said.
And regardless of the Pentagon guidance, military chaplains will still need to take cues from their religious order, said Gary Pollitt, spokesman for the Military Chaplains Association.
“Just because the Department of Defense says this can happen, the chaplains perform such rites in keeping with their ecclesiastical authorization. Period,” Pollitt said.
Gay couples may get married in Washington, D.C. and six states — Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Maryland and several other states recognize same-sex marriages but do not grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Forty-one states have either laws or constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage.
The decision validates a move made by the Navy in May that earned the ire of conservative critics and Pentagon observers, because Navy officials acted on their own instead of in tandem with other military services.
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Gates, Mabus, Mullen, Roughead... I’m extremely disappointed in their lack of leadership.
The morons at the Pentagon better have a peek at DOMA. Congress has spoken on this and it is against the law to marry same sex couples on federal installations.
Oh, they’ll recruit PLENTY of homosexuals and lesbians.
Section 3. Definition of marriage In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.
I love my country. I despise this government.
There’ll be fraggin 2 x 2.
You could spot that 3some a mile away.
Well, Mullen and Roughead just retired. But, you’re right. EVERY General and Admiral who did not retire specifically in protest of this has FAILED. I can no longer recommend the military as an honored profession. Good luck with your social experimentation, scheissekopfs.
yep.
Step by step he is de militarizing the military. Defunding, dismantling , destroying and perverting what ever is left.
Our world is circling the drain.
>> Our world is circling the drain.
We’re just momentarily under siege.
How long till they are ORDERED to perform the ceremonies? For now they can opt out for their faith, but unless things turn around, it won’t last long.
It will be interesting to see what Mullen and Roughead got in trade for ramming the UN’s agenda into our faces.
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