Navy Will Perform Same-Sex Marriages

[MrScorpio]

Navy Will Perform Same-Sex Marriages

— By Adam Weinstein| Mon May. 9, 2011 12:29 PM PDT

The military establishment, it appears, is willing to drag congressional Republicans kicking and screaming into the post-Don't Ask, Don't Tell era. The US Navy has authorized its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages on military bases in states that legally recognize such unions. That news came in a memo from the service's head chaplain (PDF), dated April 13:

Consistent with the tenets of his or her religious organization, a chaplain may officiate a same-sex, civil marriage: if it is conducted in accordance with a state that permits same-sex marriage or union; and if that chaplain is, according to the applicable state and local laws, otherwise fully certified to officiate that state’s marriages...if the base is located in a state where same-sex marriage is legal, then base facilities may normally be used to celebrate the marriage. This is true for purely religious services (e.g., a chaplain blessing a union) or a traditional wedding (e.g., a chaplain both blessing and conducting the ceremony).

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/05/navy-will-perform-same-sex-marriage

What a better reason than ever to get Marriage Equality Laws passed is every single state.

[OKNancy]

1. changed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4846972

[MrScorpio]

2. Thanks

Well, back to the drawing board

[classysassy]

3. The self righteous

republicans and their right wing supporters will denounce the navy and maybe Boner will cut their budget.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. The Navy clergy already shot this down so its not true

see post uplink.