{"id":43457,"date":"2018-08-06T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43457"},"modified":"2021-04-01T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:49:36","slug":"soldier-loses-scholarship-over-same-sex-marriage-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/06\/soldier-loses-scholarship-over-same-sex-marriage-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier Loses Scholarship over Same Sex Marriage Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"US Army SSgt Kacie Griffin has reportedly<\/a> lost her opportunity to go to college and become an officer due to a recent controversy over homosexuals and a Strong Bonds marriage retreat.<\/p>\n

\"\"SSgt Griffin was the chaplain assistant to Chaplain (Maj) Scott Squires at Fort Bragg, which was planning the Strong Bonds event earlier this year. A homosexual couple apparently expressed interest in the event; Chaplain Squires was unable to lead a marriage event with homosexuals attending, so he rescheduled the retreat — so the homosexuals filed a complaint<\/a>. The investigating officer recommended Chaplain Squires be reprimanded.<\/p>\n

For her part, SSgt Griffin was handling the administrative part of the retreat:<\/p>\n

\u201cGriffin informed Chaplain Squires of the application and informed the applicant that Chaplain Squires would speak with her. For this purely administrative act, an Army investigator determined she \u2018gave the impression she was not eligible for the event\u2019 and should be reprimanded for failing to \u2018timely answer\u2019 her question,\u201d First Liberty Institute attorney Michael Berry said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Though the “investigation” was reportedly finished months ago — and despite the fact SSgt Griffin’s commander already<\/em> decided she did not engage in discriminatory conduct — both Chaplain Squires and SSgt Griffin are apparently still<\/em> waiting for the final decision from MGen Kurt Sonntag<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Both the chaplain and the chaplain assistant have flags on their personnel file saying they are under investigation. And until the major general issues a decision, they are still technically under investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because of that status, SSgt Griffin is ineligible for the Green to Gold<\/a> opportunity for which she had previously been selected. In fact, SSgt Griffin had the recommendation for Green to Gold from a three-star General just a month before this controversy occurred.\u00a0First Liberty took MGen Sonntag — a two-star — to task for ‘dragging his feet’:<\/p>\n

\u201cMajor General Sonntag is expected to make life and death decisions for those under his command, and yet he refuses to make a simple decision that would allow this highly qualified chaplain assistant to obtain her college degree and become an officer,\u201d Berry said. \u201cThere can be no other explanation for this indecision except for an anti-religious bias that has no place in the U.S. Army.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be fair, Chaplain Squires appears to have been precisely\u00a0following Army policy<\/a>\u00a0— so it’s unclear why this is unclear.<\/p>\n

Regardless how this “investigation” concludes, it is giving homosexual activists exactly what\u00a0they want — and it is also damaging the perception of the environment of religious freedom within the US military.<\/p>\n

This is at least the third example of a homosexual lodging a complaint against a military Christian that will negatively impact their career — regardless<\/em> of the actual outcome. (The MRFF’s Chris Rodda once basically said\u00a0the investigation was all she cared about, not the result.)<\/p>\n