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Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON, October 13, 2011 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A coalition representing more than 2,000 Evangelical Christian military chaplains says its members will not perform homosexual “wedding” ceremonies. The Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty announced October 5 that it is joining the Catholic Archdiocese for Military Services to say “no” to the September 30 Pentagon directive authorizing military chaplains to do homosexual “marriages.” “I was stunned at the memorandum that came out last Friday,”  said  Alliance executive director Dr. Ron Crews, who served as chaplain for 38 years.  “It appears to set the Department of Defense in opposition to Congress in that Congress has passed a definition of marriage that is now federal law.” The Alliance says that while the Pentagon acknowledges a chaplain’s right not to participate in homosexual “marriage” ceremonies, the new policy has placed the Pentagon “in the midst of a deeply controversial issue during...

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2011  – A congressional Armed Services Subcommittee chair has said that September memos by the Pentagon announcing that military chaplains are permitted to officiate in homosexual “marriages” are instructing the military “to do things which are in fact illegal to do.” Republican Representative Todd Akin , of Missouri, said that the memos appear to violate a May 2011 amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act , which instructs that the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) applies to federal employees and federal property. Rep. Todd Akin “If the Department of Defense decides that they are going to have government-paid chaplains on government property performing homosexual marriages, they’re in direct violation of DOMA,” Akin told  CNSNews.com . “When you see essentially laws being created or ignored by the executive branch, that says we are bordering on lawlessness.” The Pentagon announced September 30 that military chaplains can officia...