As part of the National Defense Authorization Bill for 2014, the same bill which has taken extra steps to protect the religious freedoms of military chaplains, a special privilege has been added for homosexuals. In a pair of memos released on August 13, the DOD announced that a service member who wants to enter a same-sex "marriage," but is posted more than 100 miles from a state that allows same-sex "marriages," will be granted seven days of extra paid leave (ten days if posted outside the continental United States) just to travel to their wedding.
This special leave -- only for destination weddings of homosexual couples -- is above and beyond the regular annual leave granted to every service member. How much does this cost the American taxpayer? For ten days' work, a Captain (with six years' experience) earns $1,787.20 in base pay alone - that's not even accounting for benefits like housing allowance, health care, etc. Yes, you read that right, a homosexual Captain will get paid nearly $1,800 to get married, while a heterosexual Captain will not get these extra 7 to 10 days of leave or honeymoon time. Since roughly only 2-3% of the American population is actually homosexual, why should tax-payers be forced to pay these extra days of leave. This is the principal issue, tax payer funded homosexual weddings!
This special treatment is not required by the repeal of the 1993 law on homosexuality in the military referred to as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell;" it is not required by the Supreme Court's Windsor decision; and it is fundamentally unequal and unfair. In a time of sequestration and severe cuts to the military, the Pentagon should be in the business of strengthening our troops, not on same-sex "wedding" planning.
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