{"id":18365,"date":"2012-07-03T01:20:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T04:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18365"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:09:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:09:55","slug":"activists-celebrate-same-sex-ceremony-at-mcguire-afb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/activists-celebrate-same-sex-ceremony-at-mcguire-afb\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Celebrate Same Sex Ceremony at McGuire AFB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the homosexual non-marital &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/homosexual-ceremony-conducted-in-military-chapel-despite-law\/\">private religious ceremony<\/a>&#8221; in a military chapel at Fort Polk, which raised complaints due to Louisiana&#8217;s state laws regarding marriage, an Air Force Tech Sergeant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2012\/06\/ap-airman-civil-union-joint-base-mcguire-dix-lakehurst-062412\/\">entered a &#8220;civil union&#8221; in a military chapel<\/a> on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dozens of friends and family members attended Saturday afternoon\u2019s ceremony for Tech. Sgt. Erwynn Umali and Will Behrens. It was presided over by Kay Reeb, a Navy chaplain with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2012\/jun\/25\/navy-chaplain-civil-union-military-same-sex\/\">Chaplain Reeb&#8217;s<\/a> denomination accepts homosexual\u00a0<!--more-->&#8220;marriage,&#8221; even if the state of New Jersey doesn&#8217;t.\u00a0 (In a twist of irony, Michael Weinstein once claimed an ELCA chaplain was part of a conspiracy of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/21\/under-orders-under-fire\/\">fundamentalist Christian religious predation<\/a>,&#8221; consistent with Weinstein&#8217;s penchant for <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/05\/weinstein-defines-religions-assigns-followers\/\">assigning his own labels to people<\/a> regardless of their <em>actual <\/em>beliefs.)<\/p>\n<p>Some critics of religious freedom suddenly find their copy of the Constitution with respect to free exercise when it comes to homosexuals saying their ceremonies are &#8220;religious events,&#8221; and therefore protected.<\/p>\n<p>It seems\u00a0advocates of\u00a0&#8220;sexual liberty&#8221; &#8212; of all stripes &#8212;\u00a0don&#8217;t need\u00a0a court case to win the right to &#8220;be who they are.&#8221;\u00a0 They just need to say its <em>religious<\/em>.\u00a0 It seems that according to homosexual advocates, that solves everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the homosexual non-marital &#8220;private religious ceremony&#8221; in a military chapel at Fort Polk, which raised complaints due to Louisiana&#8217;s state laws regarding marriage, an Air Force Tech Sergeant entered a &#8220;civil union&#8221; in a military chapel on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Dozens of friends and family members attended Saturday afternoon\u2019s ceremony for Tech. Sgt. Erwynn Umali and Will Behrens. It [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,5284,219,3371,3374,3347,442,3373,83,2,10,171,3372],"class_list":["post-18365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-dadt","tag-erwynn-umali","tag-evangelical-lutheran-church-in-america","tag-fort-polk","tag-homosexual","tag-kay-reeb","tag-marriage","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-will-behrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}