{"id":28030,"date":"2018-04-27T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcpathway.local\/?p=28030"},"modified":"2018-04-27T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:45:23","slug":"army-chaplain-fights-charge-of-unlawful-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2018\/04\/27\/army-chaplain-fights-charge-of-unlawful-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Army chaplain fights charge of unlawful discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">WASHINGTON (BP) \u2013 Southern Baptist chaplain Jerry Scott Squires is fighting a U.S. Army investigator\u2019s charge of unlawful discrimination for refusing to preside over a marriage retreat including same-sex couples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">But Squires followed federal law and Army and Southern Baptist Convention chaplaincy protocol when he rescheduled a Feb. 9 Strong Bonds marriage retreat in order to involve a non-SBC chaplain, thereby accommodating the attendance of a lesbian couple, First Liberty Institute said in an April 17 letter to the Army in Squires\u2019 defense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">NAMB executive director of chaplaincy Doug Carver, a former Army chief of chaplains, defended Squires in a statement to Baptist Press today (April 18).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe relationship between endorsed military chaplains and their ecclesiastical authority is sacrosanct and protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,\u201d Carver emailed BP. \u201cIn a technical sense, military chaplains are \u2018on loan\u2019 to the Armed Forces from their respective faith groups who, in turn, expect the military to be faithful stewards of our pastors in uniform.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Squires is a decorated major with more than 25 years of military 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