Gay Military Wedding in Canada

Canada has now had it's first gay wedding: a sergeant and a warrant officer were married at Nova Scotia's Greenwood airbase. This puts religious conservatives in a pickle because it may end up as an example of not only how gays, but also married gays, can do just fine in a nation's military. It's always such a shame when facts and reality conflict with religious ideology, isn't it?

CBC News says:

"This couple had been waiting a very long, long time," said [Lt.-Cmdr. David Greenwood, the base's head chaplain], declining to give their names because he hadn't asked for permission.

Greenwood, an Anglican, did not perform the marriage but he did make the arrangements for the service while a United Church minister from nearby Wolfville performed the vows. "I looked after the co-ordination in accordance with our military policy of receiving the couple with dignity and respect," said Greenwood. "I was there to preach and welcome the community on behalf of the base chaplaincy."

Greenwood said he has been told that a second same-sex marriage may be in the works this year, at CFB Valcartier in Quebec.

You can expect religious conservatives to whine and complain about this, but you can also expect them to then quickly ignore the matter on the off-chance that this marriage actually succeeds. If there are no problems and if these two men are able to continue functioning in the current positions, it will be more difficult for religious conservatives to argue either than homosexuality is incompatible with military service or that gay marriages are incompatible with military service.

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