{"id":26122,"date":"2011-05-11T17:45:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_chaplains_say_navy_wedding_policy_confuses_a_fraught_debate\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:45:10","slug":"rns_chaplains_say_navy_wedding_policy_confuses_a_fraught_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26122","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Chaplains Say Navy Wedding Policy Confuses a Fraught Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Navy memo that would permit military chaplains to officiate at same-sex marriage ceremonies upon repeal of the military\u2019s Don\u2019t Ask\/Don\u2019t Tell policy is creating tension amid an already fractious debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is absolutely deplorable,\u201d\u009d said the Rev. Billy Baugham, executive director of the International Conference of Evangelical Chaplain Endorsers. \u201cIt is a total surprise to us in the sense that we did not know it would really come to this.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The chief of Navy chaplains announced in an April 13 memo that training materials for the expected repeal have been changed to allow chaplains to officiate at some same-sex ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/chaplains-say-navy-wedding-policy-confuses-a-fraught-debate-cms-17892\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Navy memo that would permit military chaplains to officiate at same-sex marriage ceremonies upon repeal of the military\u2019s Don\u2019t Ask\/Don\u2019t Tell policy is creating tension amid an already fractious debate. \u201cIt is absolutely deplorable,\u201d\u009d said the Rev. Billy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26122\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,576,114,106,435,184,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-law-legal-issues","category-military-armed-forces","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}