[Lysandru]

So, if DoD regulations say that a chaplain has to follow the rules of his sponsoring religious organization, how can a directive from an Army commander legally contradict those regulations? Try taking that to trial...

Of course, if the guy was a Methodist pastor, there would be a 50/50 chance that he would have defied the present text of the United Methodist Church's Book of Discipline.

[whistleduck]

As a former (and disgusted) Methodist—I saw that their Marxist international policy positions would soon infect domestic policy.
Ran as fast as I could two decades ago from that madness.
Most Methodists did not, and now many or most small churches (and large I suppose) are overrun with leftist spouting lesbians as leaders. Whooeee.