Navy reverses on gay unions
At Fox News is the report that Navy leadership has reversed engines on the gay union issue;
In a one-sentence memo obtained by The Associated Press, Rear Adm. Mark Tidd, chief of Navy chaplains, said his earlier decision has been “suspended until further notice pending additional legal and policy review and interdepartmental coordination.”
The Navy said its lawyers wanted to do a more thorough review of the legal decision that allowed Navy chaplains to receive training to perform civil unions on military bases, but only in states where gay marriage is legal.
Apparently, the Navy was surprised that it’s chaplains conducting same-sex unions would be controversial. You’d have thought they would have done a “more thorough review” before rolling out the press release in the first place.
Category: Military issues
I’m only surprised they didn’t double-down on dumb, like offering marriages between sailors and their pillows too.
This was an odd story when it broke.
When we received our DADT Repeal training last month, we were told the Chaplain Corps would not be required to revise their religious doctrines to accomodate gay members. Right now, I don’t know of any religious denomination that allows gay marriage, including the Episcopals who have appointed an openly gay archbishop in New England.
I think ADM Tidd went out there looking to make a name for himself and politics got the best of him.
So a flag officer advises his subordinates that they may act in defiance of the law and a one-sentence memo makes it all better. Someone please explain to me why this guy is still an admiral, let alone the Chief of Chaplains.
TopGoz,
That is easy to explain, we have a government that does not care about the law at this point in time.