Army Chaplain Scott Squires, & Ssgt Kacie Griffin Exonerated

: The Family Research Council anounced today that the U.S. Army announced it would survive rejecting the conclusions of an investigation into USA Army Chaplain Major Scott Squires, a career soldier alongside a 25-year history who served multiple tours inwards Afghanistan, Africa, as well as the Middle East. The master copy investigation defendant Squires as well as Chaplain's Assistant, SSgt Kacie Griffin, of "dereliction of duty" stemming from Squires' determination to stride downwards from leadership of a matrimony retreat that included a same-sex couple. Despite having followed DOD regulations that postulate a chaplain to follow their endorsing agency's religious tenets, as well as despite having flora some other chaplain to Pb the retreat, an Equal Opportunity complaint was filed.

Squires' chaplain endorsing agency, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) prevents its chaplains from facilitating same-sex matrimony retreats. In addition, statements made during the investigation cleared Squires of whatever wrongdoing. Regardless, an investigator recommended that Squires as well as Griffin survive flora guilty of "dereliction of duty."

Squires as well as Griffin were represented past times First Liberty Institute as well as bring received congressional back upward from Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Richard Hudson (R--N.C.), Jody Hice (R-Ga.), Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), as well as Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.).

Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins, a USA Marine Corps veteran, commented:"Unfortunately, at that topographic point are some inwards our armed services that bring non gotten the word, Obama's state of war on faith is over. As a number non all of the hostilities toward religious beliefs as well as convictions bring ended. The vast bulk of the men as well as women of faith who serve our acre are grateful for the Trump Administration's commitment to protect as well as promote our First Freedom, the liberty of religion. As a result, Scott Squires as well as Kacie Griffin bring been exonerated from these imitation accusations that included the serious accuse of dereliction of duty."
FRC's Executive Vice President as well as founding fellow member of the Army's elite Delta Force, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William G. Boykin, released the next tilt inwards reaction:"I am grateful that the Army has acknowledged the obvious fault inwards the illustration of Chaplain Squires as well as his assistant, Kacie Griffin. To accuse a faithful soldier as well as chaplain similar Scott Squires alongside 'dereliction of duty' is a blatant drive to deprive Squires of his constitutional correct to religious freedom. He as well as his boyfriend brothers as well as sisters inwards arms are defending these rights all only about the world. The armed services Chaplains Corps has been a critical entity since the American Revolution. Commanders must permit chaplains to survive chaplains as well as to practise their faith. Chaplains bring ever been spiritual counselors as well as a source of comfort to the troops. It appears that at that topographic point are commanders inwards our armed services today that run into them every bit social workers. This determination past times the Army to exonerate Chaplain Squires as well as Staff Sergeant Kacie Griffin goes a long way towards reinforcing what a chaplain is," Boykin concluded.
Baptist Press: FORT BRAGG, N.C. (BP) -- The USA Army has dropped its investigation against Southern Baptist chaplain Jerry Scott Squires, fully exonerating the major of all charges today (Aug. 24).
"This is neat intelligence for both Chaplain Squires as well as all of the armed services chaplains who are serving our men as well as women the USA Armed Services," said Gen. Douglas Carver, executive managing director of chaplaincy at the North American Mission Board (NAMB). "It is a meaning victory for all who back upward as well as defend the freedoms guaranteed past times the First Amendment of the USA Constitution, peculiarly regarding the liberty of religion."

Squires had been charged alongside unlawful discrimination as well as dereliction of duty, as well as could bring faced confinement inwards a armed services prison.

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