ASSOCIATED PRESS – Seen at a Same-Sex Military Wedding, Air Force Chaplain Leaves Southern Baptists

Published On: August 6, 2012|Categories: News|Comments Off on ASSOCIATED PRESS – Seen at a Same-Sex Military Wedding, Air Force Chaplain Leaves Southern Baptists|

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A long-serving Air Force chaplain has left the Southern Baptist Convention after the conservative denomination publicly questioned his attendance at a same-sex civil union ceremony at his base in New Jersey.

The chaplain, Col. Timothy Wagoner, is remaining on active duty and has affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, which holds more moderate views on homosexuality and some other issues than the Southern Baptists.

“I find very little that is more important and nothing that is more exhilarating than providing for the religious freedoms and spiritual care of all service members and their families – and will joyfully continue to do so,” Wagoner said Friday in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

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