From here:

The Navy will allow its chaplains to officiate same-sex marriages once the military’s ban on gay marriage is officially lifted this summer, according to a new memo written by Navy’s head chaplain, Rear Admiral Mark Tidd.

The memo’s guidance, which serves to train chaplains on a number new procedures to be instituted along with the repeal of don’t ask don’t tell, went through a rigorous legal review before being issued.

The memo reads: “Regarding the use of base facilities for same-sex marriages, legal counsel has concluded that generally speaking, base facility use is sexuality orientation neutral. If the base is located in a state where same-sex is legal, then base facilities may normally be used to celebrate the marriage.”

Navy marriages on Navy bases typically involve Navy Chaplains, but the memo goes on to say the chaplains involvement is not mandatory and he or she could decline to participate if gay marriage is not “consistent with the tenets of his or her religious organization.”

This puts chaplains who hold a Biblical view of marriage in a difficult position. The sop of “he or she could decline to participate” is liable to be challenged by those in the homosexual lobby their earliest convenience and, as priests in liberal mainline churches have quickly discovered, swimming against this particular stream is a career limiting manoeuvre.

Let’s hope that orthodox Christian chaplains don’t abandon the military altogether.

It’s no surprise that repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was merely the opening salvo in the campaign to enlist the military in the effort to destroy marriage.