Navy Authorizes Chaplains to Perform Same-Sex ‘Marriages’ in Naval Chapels

Monday, May 09, 2011
By Pete Winn

(CNSNews.com) – Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains has decided that same-sex couples in the Navy will be able to get married in Navy chapels, and that Navy chaplains will be allowed to perform the ceremonies -- if homosexual marriage is legal in the state where the unions are to be performed.

The advisory came in the form of an April 13 memo issued to all chaplains, in which the Chief of Navy Chaplains, Admiral Michael Tidd, said the Chaplain Corps was revising its Tier I training manuals, which had previously indicated that same-sex marriages are not authorized on federal property. the rest

The admiral’s memo also gives chaplains permission to "marry" homosexual couples – but would not force them to perform ceremines.