Posted on 06/07/2010 5:50:42 AM PDT by marshmallow
The archbishop for the U.S. military spoke out for the first time against the effort to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” setting up a possible conflict between Pentagon brass and the 285 Roman Catholic priests who serve on active-duty in the military.
“Those with a homosexual orientation can expect respect and treatment worthy of their human dignity,” said Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Catholic overseer for military chaplains, in a statement released late last week. “However, unions between individuals of the same gender resembling marriage will not be accepted or blessed by Catholic chaplains.”
Broglio was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI two and a half years ago, though it is unclear if the archbishop speaks for the Vatican, which has so far been mum on the issue.
Catholic priests serve an estimated 1.5 million Catholic men and women in the U.S. military, according to the Archdiocese website.
The statement follows an April 28 letter from 41 retired Army, Air Force and Navy chaplains to President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates saying that repealing the rule would present chaplains with “a profoundly difficult moral choice”–whether to obey God or men.
“Sacrificing the moral beliefs of individuals or their living conditions to respond to merely political considerations is neither just nor prudent especially for the armed forces at a time of war,” Broglio said. “Catholics believe that nothing will be done if there is a careful and prudent evaluation of the effects of a change.”
An evaluation by the Pentagon is scheduled to be completed by Dec. 1, but by then, Congress may have already passed legislation to repeal the Clinton-era rule that allows gays to serve in the military only if they do not reveal their sexual orientation.
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“Those with a homosexual orientation can expect respect and treatment worthy of their human dignity,” said Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Catholic overseer for military chaplains, in a statement released late last week. “However, unions between individuals of the same gender resembling marriage will not be accepted or blessed by Catholic chaplains.”
Broglio was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI two and a half years ago, though it is unclear if the archbishop speaks for the Vatican, which has so far been mum on the issue.
Liberals will never understand moral absolutes.
The Catholic Church will NEVER EVER compromise on the sanctitiy of real marriage and all that works to thwart it (contraception, abortion, divorce, fake marriage, “gay” “pride”).
Expect gang supported rapes in the military to go hay wire and other bureaucrates from JaG being homos or retards will hush things up. Why those who signed for the military be forced to this change and accept it is like being forced to accept squatters in your house who are pedophiles and homos.
America is going to turn into a hell hole, litteraly.
For later.
I’d expect *a lot* of people to be shot.
Like the inner cities and gang phenomena as promoted by Affirmative Action and the segregative incentive of Civil Rights, the army might indeed become a clearinghouse for some “natural” selection.
Well put.
Not sure I understand what you’re saying. From a purely pragmatic point of view, open acceptance of queers will destroy unit cohesion and negatively impact our mission readiness.
A “natural selection” that happens in the barracks is not necessarily always a bad thing - but, the queers will ultimately have their way under the force of “law”.
And their way does not contribute to the survival of the species OR the Republic.
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