Christian News:
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A Southern Baptist Army chaplain is pushing back after a military investigator concluded that he discriminated against a lesbian woman by declining to conduct a marriage retreat after learning that she had signed up to attend the event with her partner.
According to the First Liberty Institute, the unnamed Army equal opportunity investigator recommended that Chaplain Scott Squires should be disciplined for rescheduling the “Strong Bonds” marriage retreat in February so that another chaplain who doesn’t share his convictions about marriage could oversee it instead.
The North American Mission Board (NAMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) specifically prohibits its chaplains from participating in any same-sex “wedding” or retreat that would seemingly affirm homosexual relationships. Chaplains could lose their ecclesiastical endorsement for doing so.