House: No gay weddings by military chaplains

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Can military chaplains officiate at same sex marriage ceremonies in states where such marriages are legal?

Yes? No? Not yet? The answer isunclear.

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The courts, the Pentagon and the Obama Administration are tossing out Don't Ask Don't Tell -- the law that blocked LBGT military from serving openly. But the House of Representatives holds to the traditional definition of marriage for service personnel.

According to the Associated Press, when the House passed a $649 billion defense spending bill today, it blocked any of those dollars to be used to train military chaplains on how to deal with the ending DADT policy:

Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., sponsor of the amendment, said its purpose was to prohibit chaplains from performing same-sex marriages on Navy bases regardless of a state's law.

The chaplain corps has been in uproar over DADT -- pro and con -- for years. When Congress repealed DADT last year, I noted:

A Pentagon study concluded that open service would not affect military readiness but it also included some concerns about military "prayerfulness." Some of the military's 3,000 chaplains voiced fears that they would not be able to preach the truth of a religious belief that homosexual behavior is unbiblical.