An attorney who works with several evangelical dominations' chaplain-endorsing agencies is concerned about a high-ranking Army chaplain's recent comments on the military's implementation of a new policy.
According to The Sierra Vista Herald, Brigadier Gen. Donald Rutherford, a Roman Catholic priest who serves as deputy of chief for the U.S. Army's chaplains, recently visited Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and told post-religious leaders that the end of the ban on homosexuals serving in the military must be respected as the new law. He also said Army chaplains will have a major part in preparing the service to accept that lifestyle.
But Art Schulcz, an attorney for the International Conference of Evangelical Chaplain Endorsers (ICECE), points out that Rutherford's words do not match the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church.
"It's inconsistent with the position paper that was put out by the military archdiocese, Archbishop Broglio, who's made it very clear that homosexuality is contrary to the teachings of scripture; it's contrary to the position of the Catholic Church," Schulcz notes. "And that's true because their own catechism, for instance, presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity."
So the attorney concludes that forcing service members to accept the homosexual lifestyle in the military is contrary to the doctrine of the church Rutherford is supposed to represent.
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