{"id":27834,"date":"2014-01-07T00:07:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T03:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27834"},"modified":"2016-10-01T23:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T02:50:12","slug":"hill-afb-offers-chapel-not-chaplains-for-homosexual-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/hill-afb-offers-chapel-not-chaplains-for-homosexual-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill AFB Offers Chapel, not Chaplains, for Homosexual Ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the continuing search for eventful news about the “non-event” of homosexuality in the US military, a few news outlets were quick to ping Hill Air Force Base after Utah’s ban on homosexual “marriage” was overturned<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With same-sex marriage legal in Utah, Hill Air Force Base has become one of the few U.S. military installations where such unions can be performed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It would seem the press was steps ahead even of those who were interested:<\/p>\n

As of Thursday, no same-sex marriages had occurred at Hill, said base spokesman Richard Essary…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The base may yet see a whiplash, as the entire military did with the back and forth over DADT<\/a>, as Utah appealed to the Supreme Court for an emergency order<\/a> enforcing the ban on recognition of same-sex unions until the case is appealed — and the stay was granted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, while the chapel can be used for such ceremonies, none of the chaplains on the base can perform them<\/a>, as their sending endorsers do not “affirm” homosexuality.<\/p>\n

The media hyped the fact Hill was “one of the few” where such weddings could be performed, which might be accurate — but it hasn’t stopped everything-but-the-word-wedding ceremonies at bases around the country. Fort Polk<\/a> (in the deep South) and McGuire AFB<\/a> hosted non-marital wedding-like ceremonies more than a year ago, and Fort Bragg<\/a> recently did the same (much to the chagrin of former Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If a ceremony exactly like<\/em> a wedding can be held in a military chapel where such weddings aren’t permitted, it would seem the prohibition is academic.<\/p>\n

Also at the AP<\/a> and the Air Force Times<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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