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Related: About this forumRepublicans Once Again Try To Ban Same-Sex Weddings On Military Bases
Republicans Once Again Try To Ban Same-Sex Weddings On Military Bases
For the past two years, House Republicans have attempted to use the National Defense Authorization Act to solidify some anti-gay principles into military codes, including a ban on same-sex weddings on military bases, a license to bully that encouraged anti-gay harassment, and redundant conscience protections for military chaplains. Some of these conscience protections advanced in the final version of the bill this past fall, and Obama criticized them in a signing statement, calling them unnecessary and ill-advised. Now, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) is once again trying to enshrine discrimination into the nations military.
His new bill, H.R. 914, the Military Religious Freedom Protection Act, contains more redundant protections for military chaplains, ensuring as is already the case that they cannot be penalized if their religious beliefs are not pro-gay. What seems evident is that those redundancies are simply a guise for the last little provision in the bill: a ban on same-sex marriages on military bases:
A military installation or other property owned, rented, or otherwise under the jurisdiction or control of the Department of Defense shall not be used to officiate, solemnize, or perform a marriage or marriage-like ceremony involving anything other than the union of one man with one woman.
Furthermore, if there is any concern that chaplains consciences are not already protected, it seems that these reiterated provisions could only serve to protect outright anti-LGBT harassment.
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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/03/04/1672071/republicans-once-again-try-to-ban-same-sex-weddings-on-military-bases/
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Republicans Once Again Try To Ban Same-Sex Weddings On Military Bases (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Mar 2013
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LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)1. How about banning any wedding on military bases?
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)2. Fucken Kaaansas again! Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) is once again trying
to enshrine discrimination into the nations military. I guess Kansas has run out of abortion stuff to kick around, now they're after the gays again, a great punching bag for Kaaansas. Kansas, a nice place to be from as in GONE! Fuck Kansas,